Posted on 09/21/2011 10:28:07 AM PDT by Niuhuru
A white supremacist who was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man in an horrific killing that echoed the atrocities of the lynching era is to be executed today.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6pm for his part in the 1998 killing of James Byrd, Jr in East Texas.
Brewer was one of three men convicted of killing Byrd after they offered him a lift along a remote country road.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
About freaking time. A tragedy that true justice took this long.
On that note ... seen any big anti-war rallies in the last 2.5 years?
Only Dick Gregory knows Byrd's murder was fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and Byrd died for our sins.
I am fairly convinced one the protesters there is sincere.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-texas-execution-son-idUSTRE78K35B20110921
Ross Byrd, son of James Byrd Jr., has been protesting the execution.
dammed sub humans
So, like, what about the Wichita Horror? Or the Knoxville Horror (Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom)?
I'll have to check the Daily Mail to see what kind of coverage it gave to those Politically Correct murders.
I know our media kept those pretty quiet...
Good riddance dirt bag!!
If the best possible evidence is circumstantial, I agree. It’s not my goal to do in someone who doesn’t deserve it. Folks caught in the act, fry ‘em, and the sooner the better.
What deterrence does a thirty-five year appeals process provide? What consideration did the victim get? Zero!
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