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In 2001, Byrd's lynching-by-dragging led the state of Texas to pass a hate crimes law, which later led the United States Congress to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. [4] Brewer was executed by lethal injection for his part in the murder on September 21, 2011. [5]
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).
April 24 (Reuters) - A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern ...
John William King was executed Wednesday in Texas for the gruesome hate crime murder of a black man more than 20 years ago. White Supremacist Executed for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd. Jr [Video]
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed in 2009 after Shepard, a gay student in Wyoming, and Byrd, a Black father of three in Texas, were murdered in 1998.The ...
On October 28, 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which expanded existing United States federal hate crime law to apply to crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender ...
John William King orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history when he and two others killed James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
On October 22, 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act. [24] The Act of Congress was signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [ 25 ] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).