The Murder and Investigation of the James Byrd Jr. Case in Jasper, Texas
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5
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the murder and investigation of the James Byrd Jr. case in Jasper, Texas. Three white men were sentenced to death (Bill King and Lawrence Brewer) and life imprisonment (Shawn Berry) for the hate crime of beating and dragging James Byrd, a black man, behind their truck until he was dead. The killers were later found to be affiliated with the Aryan Nation and Ku Klux Klan although were found to be acting on their own.
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