HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A white supremacist gang
member is headed to the Texas death chamber for the infamous dragging death 13
years ago of James Byrd Jr.
The 49-year-old Byrd, a black man from Jasper, was
chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a
bumpy asphalt road. It's one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent
Texas history.
Brewer will be the first of two men condemned for
Byrd's death to be executed. A third man received life in prison.
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2011 The Associated Press.
(AP
Photo/Byrd Family Photo, File)
