This was so tragic and horrific!! I remember feeling ashamed for having people like the killers in our country
He was dragged to death in Jasper, Texas by three white men who were members of the ??Confederate Knights-Ku Klux Klan?. James Byrd was walking on the road on Huff Creek Road when the 3 white men pick him up and chained him on the back of the pickup truck. He was then dragged 3 miles until his body was mutilated and left near the gate of Jasper black cemeteries. His murder was reported all over the United States and other countries. Media coverage at the murder trial of the three men, Russell Brewer, John William King, and Shawn Berry, was extensive. All three were convicted of capital murder, with Berry receiving life in prison, and Brewer and King receiving the death penalty.