James Byrd's horrific death forever changed hate crime law. One of his killers is about to be executed.
A man is seen carrying a photograph of James Byrd Jr. outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in 2011. By Eli Rosenberg and Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow Lindsey Bever Lindsey Bever General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 24 at 8:05 AM James Byrd Jr.’s body was found in pieces along a country road in Texas in June 1998.
A gruesome scene From the site where Byrd’s remains were found in 1998, police followed a blood trail up a logging road, finding a grassy area where it appeared a fight had occurred. Sandals found at Berry’s apartment were stained with Byrd’s blood and appeared to match some of the footprints from the crime scene.
John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer are escorted from the Jasper County Jail on June 9, 1998, in Jasper, Texas. The trial King’s trial opened in January. Prosecutors from the Jasper County District Attorney’s office showed evidence of King’s “violent hatred” of black people, according to court documents.
Sheriff Billy Rowles and Texas Ranger Ronnie McBride escort John William King through a Jasper County courtroom. A long history of appeals The two other defendants in the case, Brewer and Berry, were tried later. Brewer was convicted of capital murder and was executed in 2011. Berry, the last to be tried, was sentenced to life in prison; prosecutors said that he joined the murder for the thrill but did not share Brewer’s and King’s white supremacist beliefs.
“But we weren’t,” he said in an interview. “I think our juries showed the country and the world that we were not the racist bunch of hicks that we were being portrayed as in the media.”
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