While the world spoke out in a global protest against the inevitable execution of Troy Davis yesterday, there was another execution happening in Texas that didn’t generate as much attention, but many believed was justice in effect. White supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed at 6pm Wednesday night for the 1998 murder of a black man, 49-year-old James Byrd Jr., one of the most horrific hate crimes documented in our generation.

Lawrence and two of his friends offered James a ride while he was walking down a deserted country road. James was not only beaten unconscious, but was urinated upon and then tied to their car by his ankles. The men drove three miles with him chained to the vehicle, and it’s speculated that James was alive for most of the ordeal. It wasn’t until his arm and head were ripped from his body that forensic evidence shows he died. The three killers then dumped James’ remains

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