Texas death row inmate Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was executed by lethal execution at 7:21 p.m. ET Wednesday, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
Brewer was one of three men found guilty for his involvement in the dragging death of James Byrd 13 years ago.
Brewer and two other white men kidnapped the 49-year-old black man on the night of June 7, 1998. They chained him by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for 3 ½ miles down a country road near Jasper, Texas. Byrd died when he was decapitated after he hit a culvert.
Prosecutors said the crime, which they described it as one of the most vicious hate crimes in U.S. history, was intended to promote Brewer's fledgling white supremacist organization.
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The death penalty Should happen.. Even with a monster like him..
They should have chop his head like Saddam !!! the following day!!! that will teach all the haters a damn lesson!!!
I meant to say shouldn't
lol yeah yeah sorry I'm with you, but some cases a little easy as this subhuman gave up his humanity card time to leave by by!
i'm truly torn on the death penalty...part of me says it has to stop...sometime...with someone...but this case makes me feel it is justice served...of course, 13 years of free food and shelter isn't exactly prompt...
I think the time is needed for some cases, to make sure the guilty party is truly guilty. But in cases such as this, an expedited execution might be called for. The for/against death penalty argument is a struggle, cases such as these lean me towards the "for" argument.
I understand the all too human desire for revenge, getting even. That's what the death penalty is all about. The problem with revenge is that it does nothing to heal the people who think getting even will somehow make them feel better. If anything, getting even (executing somebody) makes them even angrier than they were when they realize that it didn't relieve their emotional pain.
Ths is not revenge. REvenege is when you seek out a person who did you wrong and carry out YOUR own judgment. Even famikly members would seek the murderer. Mexico is notorious for this act. A trial is NOT revenge...based on yor logic...it would no difference...Jesus taught different...I'll stick with Jesus
I just feel like who are these ppl to say whn one shud die !
it's "should"
lol, and "when"
Executed by lethal execution? Great writing there. I didn't know there was anything about execution that wasn't lethal.
LOL, I never noticed that until I read your comment and re-read the article.
This why the death penalty must be!! It is for satan's children..the cold blooded murderers!!!
i would like to see how many of you would still be against the death penalty if it was your family that was murdered.
I have had family members murdered...and I'm still against the death penalty. Death is the easy way out and more of these people wish for it than anyone admits to. It's their easy way out of whatever crap life they've lived. So, so answer your question, that doesn't apply to all who have had to endure the loss of family at someone else's hand.
Right or wrong ......one thing is for sure we don't have to worry about Brewer dragging anyone else!
againdeathpenalty – Who was Brewer to tell James Byrd he was going to die? please, eye for an eye
Texas sire dpesm't mess around when it comes to exucuting !! I believe in the death penalty
Sorry for misspelling on my message.
Texas sure doesn't mess around when it comes to the DEATH PENALTY !!! So be it !!! I believe in the death penalty and what they did to the man behind that vehicle to cause him to die was a ultimate crime. Terrible for the man's family. Tonight in Georgia they are trying to stop at lethal injection death, but I hope they go forward with it. GO TEXAS !!
Dont messes with Texas
Texas,,,the new merchants of death
I believe an eye 4 an eye. There is no reason for taking an innocent life away, if you do the crime then pay the consequence