Posted on 09/21/2011 6:09:07 PM PDT by Borges
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement."
He glanced at his parents watching through a nearby window, took several deep breaths and closed his eyes. A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye as he was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms, both covered with intricate black tattoos.
Byrd's sisters also were among the witnesses in an adjacent room.
"Hopefully, today's execution of Brewer can remind all of us that racial hatred and prejudice leads to terrible consequence for the victim, the victim's family, for the perpetrator and for the perpetrator's family," Clara Taylor, one of Byrd's sisters, said.
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Some people need to die, and when they do, the world is a better place. This guy was one of them.
Yes its time to “fry” mumia
WOOOHOOO! GRRRREAT news! Thanks for posting.
He’s dead Jim
I think the Byrd case was a national deal because George Bush was running for president at the time and they wanted to somehow make Texas crime his fault.
NIG#GER, DON’T LET THE SUN SET ON YOU IN VIDOR.
You lie...or are very confused. Vidor is near Beaumont on I-10. Jasper is 60 miles north of Beaumont.
Why would there be a sign in Jasper about Vidor.
I live in Jasper! I've never seen such a sign...ever!
BTW, Brewer was visiting Jasper that weekend and was the ring leader in this deal. The Jasper boys were much younger and went a long.
Several local blacks were witnesses for Shawn Berry because they had grown up playing with him and didn't consider him a racist.
King was a racist because he was raped in the pen by a gang of blacks.
The night the dragging took plac they were all drunk and doing drugs.
They rode around for a while, Byrd went along willingly...and this would not meet the criteria for a hate crime.
Not gonna happen. They are against the DP but for abortion. Let the murderous vermin live but kill the innocent. Principles? They have none.
Good riddance. Now, on to the cop killer.
Where was the pope, world leaders and anti-death penalty groups? Where was the stay by the SC?
So surely, if that's not an apocryphal story, there must be pictures, right?
Will Brian Williams struggle to sleep at night after this execution?
You know, a lot of people think an eye for an eye is barbaric, but it just might be more effective than what we're not doing right now.
Ironic eh? The guy was trying to turn himself into a black man.
I was waiting for that one. My favorite.
Being a lib means never having to use logic or consistency in thought.
You would really, really have to hate someone to do what that man did to that woman. It was sickening.
I believe you are right, although I didn’t put that in my post because I wasn’t sure.
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