James Byrd Jr. Lynched by White Supremacists in Jasper, Texas

James Byrd Jr., 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck by three white men, John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Berry, and dragged nearly three miles along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas until decapitated. King and Brewer had white supremacist tattoos. King and Brewer were sentenced to death; Berry received life. The murder prompted the eventual James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act.