Texas Executes White Supremacist Who Killed Black Man

by Stephan Tawney on September 21, 2011

Good riddance.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer has been executed for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.

The 49-year-old Byrd of Jasper was chained to the back of a pickup truck 13 years ago and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road. It’s one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.

Two additional individuals were involved in the murder: One was sentenced to death but is currently going through the appeals process, the other was sentenced to life in prison.



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