In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr, a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, TX. Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011 and the other, John William King, was executed in April, 2019. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.) #JamesByrd |
