Update: Lawrence Russell Brewer was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. ET after being executed for the murder of James Byrd Jr., the International Business Times reports. Brewer had no final words. Many in ...

A small bag of dirt from the grave site of James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to his death in a hate crime 12 years ago, is for sale. So are a piece of the road and dirt from a culvert where the murder ...

The community in Jasper continues to heal 20 years after the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Byrd, 49, was tied to the back of a pick-up truck by three white men then dragged along a country road to ...

On this date in history: In 1776, the Lee Resolution, which led to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was introduced in the Continental Congress. In 1864, Republican delegates meeting in Baltimore ...

For 20 minutes after he was sentenced to die, John William “Bill” King wasn’t simply a symbol of racial hatred and evil. His heartbroken father, sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube in his nose ...