The community in Jasper continues to heal 20 years after the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Byrd, 49, was tied to the back of a pick-up truck by three white men then dragged along a country road to ...

Update: Lawrence Russell Brewer was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. ET after being executed for the murder of James Byrd Jr., the International Business Times reports. Brewer had no final words. Many in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The man sentenced to death for one of the most gruesome murders in modern American history showed no remorse before his execution. John William King was executed by the Texas ...

{p}After Byrd’s death, the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing was created to bring attention to the impact of racial hatred. (PHOTO: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune){/p} JASPER — On a spring ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — It’s been more than two decades since an infamous hate crime in East Texas, where three white men were convicted of chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck, dragging him ...

In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming- and James Byrd Jr.- an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas- provoked a passionate public ...