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DrPhil

09-22-2011 11:17 AM

James Byrd, Jr.'s killer executed last night

This is what I put in the bumped Delta forum thread last night:

James Byrd, Jr.'s killer was executed this evening.

Quote:

Originally Posted by article

White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44613428/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001

knight_shadow

09-22-2011 11:59 AM

That was all over the news this morning.

DrPhil

09-22-2011 03:27 PM

Whenever I ask people about this execution, they respond with a discussion of the other execution that happened last night.

agzg	09-22-2011 03:37 PM

Ha. Well, this one is definitely harder to discuss.

DrPhil

09-22-2011 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agzg (Post 2093829)

Ha. Well, this one is definitely harder to discuss.

Because this man was found guilty and executed with no debate whereas the other execution was being debated and protested?

agzg	09-22-2011 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2093833)

Because this man was found guilty and executed with no debate whereas the other execution was being debated and protested?

Pretty much. Fewer questions of guilt v. innocence, even the nature of his crime. Harder to argue against putting this Lawrence Brewer to death than Troy Davis, I suppose.

AnchorAlum

09-22-2011 08:16 PM

The photo of James Byrd's sisters in today's Dallas Morning News tugs at the heartstrings.

I hope that the family takes some measure of comfort, however small, at the State of Texas carrying out justice on behalf of this poor innocent man. It wasn't swift, but it was sure.

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