James Byrd, Jr.

American murder victim

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murder

  • family of James Byrd, Jr., after John William King's conviction
    In murder of James Byrd, Jr.

    , killing of James Byrd, Jr., an African American man, on June 7, 1998, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck by three white men—John William King, Lawrence Russell…

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Shepard

  • Matthew Shepard
    In Matthew Shepard

    …Crimes Prevention Act of 2009; Byrd was an African American who was brutally killed by three white supremacists in 1998.

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