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.