Wasn;t this James Byrd also suffer a gross injustice when a sheriff put him in a cell of known homosexual raptists and he was forced to perform oral sex after people had penetrated an anus...and all of this was a PAY BACK of revenge?
( retard) Barack Obama signed The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act on October 22, 2009
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Shepard was murdered because he stole from his drug dealers.
But I suppose saying he was killed for being a fag sounds better.
They should have killed him the day after
Unbelievable that it has taken 20 years to get around to executions. Ridiculous.
Funny how everyone’s favorite cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal was made a cause celeb, but there was no moral pontificating over the immorality of capital punishment in these cases. Not that these POS’s don’t deserve it but ya gotta hand it to the left. They think they’re slick at how they pick and choose their battles.
What’s the rush?
If it had been in NY or CA they would all be walking free today
When death sentences take so long that most people don’t remember the crime it loses it’s deterrent value.
On June 7, 1998, Byrd, age 49, accepted a ride from Shawn Berry (age 23),
Lawrence Russell Brewer (age 31) and John King (age 23). Berry, who was driving,
was acquainted with Byrd from around town. Instead of taking Byrd home,
the three men took Byrd to a remote county road out of town, beat him
severely, urinated and defecated on him and chained him by his ankles
to their pickup truck before dragging him for approximately 3 miles
(4.8 km). Brewer later claimed that Byrd’s throat had been slashed by
Berry before he was dragged. However, forensic evidence suggests that
Byrd had been attempting to keep his head up while being dragged, and
an autopsy suggested that Byrd was alive during much of the dragging.
Byrd died about halfway along the route of his dragging after his
right arm and head were severed when his body hit a culvert. Byrd’s
brain and skull were found intact, further suggesting he maintained
consciousness while being dragged.
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.
It’s taken that long? The pos deserves no mercy. I’d tie him to the back of a truck and ask him how it feels.