Topic: James Byrd, Jr.
Trips to the Texas death chamber will no longer come with triple-meat bacon cheeseburgers and a side of fries.. The state's Department of Criminal...
0 . . . White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd...
AUSTIN (Reuters) - Texas is set to execute on Wednesday a white supremacist convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck, in what some call the most notorious race crime of the post-Civil Rights era.Lawrence Russell ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - As Texas prepares to execute one of his father's killers, Ross Byrd hopes the state shows the man the mercy his father, James Byrd Jr., never got when he was dragged behind a truck to his death."You ...
1 of 3 defendants pleads not guilty in swastika branding case in New MexicoA New Mexico man pleaded not guilty Monday to federal hate-crime charges in the case of a mentally disabled Navajo man who had a swastika branded on his arm ...
From the eyes of a southern white male describing how race relations have improved, I am bound to lack a complete perspective. The differences between then and now are starkly contrasted by the highly visible presence of blacks, Chicanos and Asian people ...
Introduction Hate groupscan be found all over the United States, in every state of the union, withnames like: But yourarely think of these groups having much power or say in the jail and prisonsystems of the United States, where prisoners are watched ...
President Obama signed into law a gay-inclusive hate crimes bill during a White House signing ceremony on Wednesday President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard & After more than a decade of opposition we passed inclusive hate crimes legislation to help protect ...
US President Barack Obama Wednesday condemned crimes meant not to break only bones " "Today, we have taken another step forward," Obama said. "No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they ...
The U.S. Senate passed hate crimes legislation Thursday that expands the federal definition of bias-based crimes to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. The bill, passed by the House earlier this month, is named after hate crimes victims Matthew ...
