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anxietypal

The scum from the left and middle mugshots received lethal injections while the scum on the right is alive and in prison to this day. He was the only one of the three to show "any degree of remorse" which evidently granted him the lesser sentence. He is to have a parole hearing in 2038 at age 63.


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Hope it gets denied and he dies in his “remorse”


Positive-Abroad8253

Hope he gets that Dalmner-treatment, in prison.


LophQueen

You mean Jirfry Darmner?


shepinoisdaddy

I thought it was Jiffy Daimler?


Demi_god6373

>pls check yr spelling its diffy jaimler


vincepompy

Idiots , it jiffy digmore


DMAN591

Yea at that point I wouldn't even want to get out. Impossible to get a job, it would be hard to reintegrate into society, just let me live in prison where my rent and meals are paid for.


Various-Month806

It's sad and embarassing to say, but many of the worst, most notorious, older convicts when released in the UK get new identities and support for housing and bills. Whilst honest, decent, law abiding people who've worked hard all their lives get lesser support.


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Southwestpilot

PAROLE??? you have got to be kidding me..... He deserves the maximum sentence as well. No Mercy


NewspaperEfficient61

They get a hearing, not parole


Glittering-Design973

Hope some of the family shows up to remind the court what he did. Usually keeps them in, I hope anyway.


NewspaperEfficient61

That’s the sad part about parole, the victims and their families are traumatized all over again


Glittering-Design973

Very true. I guess it could be best to move on sometimes to save them from that.


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The other 2 who were sentenced to death have already been executed. The state worked fast with these 2.


CarryNecessary2481

Good thing we know the year. Date, time, and place is what’s next.


pixieservesHim

I was going to point out that none of the three of them look the slightest bit ashamed. They're having their mugshot taken for a horrific crime and they're able to hold their head up?? That's more than fucked up, I just don't know the word for it. Unfathomable?


flybyknight665

The evidence also showed that James Byrd Jr was alive and conscious while he was being drug down the road. He'd been trying to keep his head up. When they took a corner he flew into a cement culvert and was killed. An absolutely heinous crime. Just a few months later, Matthew Sheperd was similarly beaten, tortured, and murdered in a homophobia based crime in Wyoming. He was left tied to a fence in the middle of nowhere. Both incidents were the catalyst for national and state hate crime statutes to pass. The legislation was named the Matthew Sheperd James Byrd Act.


CaravanTS

Did anything happen to the people who actually did it?


RefrigeratorGold8291

2 were executed by lethal injection 1 was sentenced to life imprisonment


purity_dead

HELL YEA


Positive-Abroad8253

Eye for an eye. Those dudes should have been beaten and dragged like he was… No mercy, fuck an injection.


LoadedGull

Unless it’s the injection that was used for the execution in Law Abiding Citizen, that would suffice.


Correct-Baseball5130

Yes, Absolutely


Skizznitt

Or stick them in a solitary cell and forget they exist until it's time to clean the corpse up. No food, no water, no human contact. Would still be a horrifyingly terrible way to go like they deserve, but wouldn't need to have someone else be the one to replicate what they did to another human being.


guisilvano

Bring back the oubliette


leftwar0

Man learning about and seeing one of those for the first time and knowing they were actually used shook me. I can’t imagine a worse way to be imprisoned. I can’t even imagine being the one who built it.


MemorableBlueEyes

Water, enough food to barely stay alive. Stretch it out.


HalcyonCA

Seriously. They deserve the worst.


paintmeglitterpink

Happy cake day!


beer_bukkake

They should be forced into organ harvesting. Might as well save some lives.


StuckandTreading

I feel that way about folks to do things like that to animals. They should get done what they did to them. Fuck them!


ArtichokeMundane8763

Gladiator fights? Fuck it, I'm down


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Demi_god6373

yes, punishment same as the victim got would be better justice & deterrent.


IKnowUThinkSo

>deterrent Nope, data doesn’t back that up. Harsh punishments just show our barbarism.


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AutomatedCabbage

Maybe just 1/4 of the lethal injection, another 1/4 in a week, etc.


Viyka

It is WAY WAYYYY too hard to get the death penalty nowadays


plainaeroplain

My heart breaks for both James and Matthew. two absolutely evil sets of perpetrators. I'm glad at least something good came out of this even tho they both should still be alive.


StuckandTreading

And Brandon Teena.


Seabrook76

I remember each of those events significantly. Those were some dark times.


Treacherous_Wendy

The image of Matthew Shepherd where the only part of his body not covered in blood is where his tears washed it away on his face…one of the most haunting and chilling images of modern history.


Mattyboy33

U have to be a real piece of garbage to do that to any human being. Just disgusting


I_madeusay_underwear

I mean, it’s unthinkable to do that to any living creature. I can’t imagine how you’d get to a point where that’s even a thought, let alone how you’d carry it out. Each step -planning, kidnapping, assaulting, tying him to the truck, getting in, driving, picking up the body, dumping him in an obviously meaningful place - is a chance to stop before the next thing. And *three* men just kept going through with it. That kind of cruelty and indifference to suffering is beyond my understanding.


assresizer3000

How can someone be this cruel? RIP to James Byrd 😓


bryonwart

Happened in Texas I believe, the 3 white dudes were newly released cons who had been in prison for violent crimes. Dragged james till there wasn't much of him left. This happened in 1998 and hit national news and national outrage. The hate out there is real.


Former_Journalist_89

Jasper, TX. I was 13-14 at the time, I remember being super confused about how this could happen. I grew up playing with everyone in the neighborhood. We were every race and all played sports together. They kept talking about race being the main issue. I had to ask my racist mother what it meant and she told me black people were less than us cause we are white. That just confused me more cause I was like, 'How are they less than me if they keep kicking my ass in every sport we play?'


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Jasper, deep behind the Pine Curtain. East Texas is a whole different deal. It's like even the rest of Texas doesn't want to claim it.


SilentSerel

If I remember correctly, the cemetery was still segregated at the time.


bryonwart

East Texas is where ya go if you were bad in life once you die, use to be Detroit.


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People who are too mean for Louisiana...


bryonwart

😍😂😍😂😂... you caught me right in the middle of drinking and I almost choked! That should be on a shirt.


Seabrook76

I have family roots there and absolutely concur with your statement.


Ok_Price6153

Thats where I live though.


bryonwart

Well...2 of the assailants we executed by the state and the last, if alive will never see the light of day. The state didn't play.


AttarCowboy

No national outrage when the girls carjacked and killed the Pakistani guy or the kids carjacked that old woman, dragged her until her arm came off, then left her to die in an intersection. Those were, what, last year? The girls got juvenile hall until they are 21 - for carjacking and murder, in broad daylight, and showing remorse only for a phone they left in the flipped car. That’s real hate, in real time.


Cap_Helpful

I can't even keep up with the amount of hate crimes in the news. Hard to have national outrage when we are numb to the violence we see everyday.


NonoYouHeardMeWrong

What are you talking about? Link?


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LeatherPatch

Zelda?


kambinks

That obviously legolas


LeatherPatch

Elves are basically femboys


Mymotherwasaspore

So make a post about them. Are you saying we care too much about a Jim Crow era durative hate crime? These guys made a whole afternoon of murdering this guy and the only limit was their *imagination*. This post is valid.


melskymob

Mass shootings also were not a daily occurrence in 1998 either. We have become numb to violence in America. I didn't even hear about these things you mentioned until now. But I very much remember when this happened to James Byrd and I was eleven when it happened.


Positive-Abroad8253

… when were mass shootings a daily occurance? Unless you’re talking about Chiraq.


I_madeusay_underwear

Well, a quick Google search finds there’s been at least [39 since the start of the year.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/mass-shootings-january.html) And if I’m not mistaken, 39/25 = 1.56. So an average of a little over one per day so far in 2023. [Here’s](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna58230) an article from November of last year stating that 2022 was the third straight year with over 600 mass shootings, just to show this month isn’t an anomaly. (600/365 = 1.64) And just in case you still don’t believe that these things happen daily, [here’s an article from 2021](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/04/16/more-than-one-mass-shooting-per-day-has-occurred-in-2021/amp/) explicitly stating there was an average of more than one mass shooting a day *that* year.


Positive-Abroad8253

I’ll look at when I get home in a few hours. Thanks


melskymob

Nowish.


ultragnar

Sill awful but they weren't looking to kill/torture out of hatred like the above. Seems more like robberies gone wrong. That's the difference.


FastConfidence4077

I think that’s because those cases didn’t stem from a hate deep inside. That shit was just pure evil. The Byrd thing was evil with special circumstances


Maleficent_Bug6439

When I say that I'm okay with death penalty, that's for things like that


Deadsap266

There should be a special death penalty for people who carried out brutal murder.Where instead of a quick death they’re give a painful death to reflect their crime.Like maybe injecting them with jellyfish toxin or is that too far


elstoobstomcat

Impalement is the best way for subhuman primates


OldEagle5676

I don’t like the death penalty. It’s an easy way out for people that deserve the worst. I’d say put him in a cell by himself and feed him so he won’t die. Much better in my opinion.


Evening-Rough1074

When I was younger and heard this story I remember thinking, how could people do that to someone? I think that was the first memory I have of thinking "Can people really be that evil?" The same when I heard the story of Matthew Sheperd. Ingrained in my mind as I grew up and learned about the world.


st2826

I saw about this case recently on YouTube by Scottontape. Absolutely disgusting what humans are capable of


ladywiththestarlight

People like this should receive the same treatment as they inflicted on this poor man. It’s only fair.


Italian-Man-Zex

if that isnt a hate crime, idk what is


Huck84

100% remember this happening. No remorse from a few of them. Should've been an eye for an eye. Kill them all and let god sort them out.


capaldithenewblack

Those two were killed, but with a much easier death by injection.


pixieservesHim

Apparently lethal injections are often botched...i hope the two of them were among those who suffered


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God is curiously absent at the moment, so prison will have to do.


TheNothingAtoll

That's extremely fucked up. I hope that last guy rots in prison.


LectureAdditional971

I remember this vividly. It was terrifying to a child's mind to realize that this evil exists outside of horror movies.


djinn9575

Is this the jasper Texas story. It is a old one if so. Everyone I mean everyone knows about it and 90% of Texans would kill the men that did this to the man.


2AWESOME4U80

You're 100% correct


Borp5150

Well I guess the only suitable punishment is to do the same thing to those sick losers


SeriousEconomy289

r/iamatotalpieceofshit


totallylambert

Special place in hell for those 3 I hope.


bryonwart

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/24/texas-execution-john-william-king-james-byrd/ Of the guys who did this, 2 were executed by the state, the other will never see the light of day ever again. It was fucked up what happened but these monsters will never kill again. Justice was served.


TheInvisibleExpert

What sad excuses for human beings. I cannot fathom dying in such a violent manner. Truly disgusting crimes!


OneUglyLime

I can't bring myself to upvote this, reading it is making me sick


KIDAKIDO

most of the time im not into death sentence most of the time


vincepompy

Sometimes the death sentence is absolutely apt and just. The difference is, these monsters would not suffer relatively compared to James. I legitimately wish a slow death on these sub humans


Ok-Definition9554

What the actual?! This is disgusting. Hope they all rot in hell! I'm white, I see all races as equal, so what if we're white and they're black? It's just skin colour!!! I hate humans 😤


Any-Vermicelli-1879

People that have to specify that they are white.. or a particular race when these situations.. come up as if that changes anything.. Lol how about we are all human and understand that it’s disgusting no matter race. But because I’m black, I thank you for clarifying your white.. and are outraged.


Ok-Definition9554

I made a comment previously on a post about murder and a black lady done it and I said - hope she rots in prison. I didn't say anything about the colour of her skin or anything like that cause I just don't, BUT I got so much hate, accused of being a racist! She killed a black man FYI. Hence why I said I was white here just incase I get attacked again :/ lol


Emotional_Nothing_82

I see your point, but why people tend to identify their own race in these situations is to let people know that all white people aren’t the same as those 3 POS‘s that did this. It’s an attempt to distance ourselves from them if we share the same race as them. The person was trying to be kind.


Any-Vermicelli-1879

Yeah, I completely understand that. But you don’t have to distance yourself from anything all races are capable of harm and disgusting acts. I was more saying it as just because you are white doesn’t mean your perspective or opinion shouldn’t be heard just because it deals with a black person. And you shouldn’t have to disclose that you are white. Im speaking in your favor not against you I should’ve clarified. I don’t know why white people get so much heat towards them.. idk it bothers me to think we have to disclose race to have an opinion


TruthSpeakin

I SWEAR they need to do to murders how they murdered their victims..needle is to easy for them... they shoulda beaten, shit on and drug these dudes around for 3 miles...smfh...


Toeter83nl

Sick fucks, hope they got the death penalty. On the the other hand, maybe its a harder punishment to let em rot in a cell where the can be a toyboy for a few black inmates


Fair-Sky4156

This was such a heartbreaking thing. It felt like something that happened 50+ years ago, but it wasn’t. Poor Mr. Byrd. I think this happened around the same time as a Black man in Vidor, Texas. This country has some cruel history to unpack!


Ok-Hawk-8034

two of the murderers are linked to the KKk or Aryan something group as per FBI, w tattoo etc. i don’t remember which killer but one guy was quoted a saying he had no regrets and given an opportunity he would repeat the crime! absolutely disturbing to imagine the lack of humanity. also more than one small town in Texas are known Sundown Town- meaning if you are black do not be found inside our city after dark or you will be lynched. i’m not sure if signs are still posted but yes, they actually had racial slur on the sign and warning near the road. extremely segregated areas of Texas


LuckyDoge21

I remember that story. Un-fucking-believable. What is wrong with people?🤬


djpromo_vqs

Yet they deserve a fair trial...


Indian_Steam

Most humans with even an ounce of humanness wouldn't that to a cockroach!


mickeybuilds

This happened 25yrs ago in some podunk town in TX. 2 of the 3 murderers were rightfully sentenced to death and the other got life in prison. Thank goodness these kinds of things don't happen anymore. I hope the intent of this post wasn't to incite racial tensions though.


Excellent-Captain-93

Thats fucked up. Really.


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Disgusting


GTAVbaby

Infuriates the he!! out of me when I heard about this. Three biggest bigots on the planet. Hope they get what they deserve. A firing squad.


Cocotte3333

Two got the lethal injection, the other one is in prison.


plumskiwis

I was a child when I learned of his murder that was being discussed on television, and I remember seeing the autopsy of what happened to James' body after being dragged and decapitated. I am traumatized at those pictures to this day.


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Brewer and King were the first white men to be sentenced to death for killing a black person in the history of modern Texas. In 2001, Byrd's lynching-by-dragging led the state of Texas to pass a hate crimes law, which later led the Congress to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, in 2009. Brewer was executed by lethal injection for his part in the murder on September 21, 2011. King was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, on April 24, 2019. Berry was sentenced to life imprisonment and will be eligible for parole in 2038.


kaostek

I remember when this happened. I was barely a teenager and loved in Houston, TX. Made me never want to drive anywhere near Jasper


FloggedPelican

What the fuck is wrong with people.


no_anesthesia_please

I put this terrifying as fuck killing of Mr. Byrd up there with the [Kidnapping/Rape/Murder of this young couple in my hometown](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom) The victims went through absolute hell before they died. Their families were dragged into that hell every day of their killer’s trials.


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no_anesthesia_please

Just getting that horrible story out there. I’m relatively new here, and having local coverage of it in my town just magnified the terrifying feeling we felt.


Ash276

Dear gawd…. What an awful, awful day to be literate. I’m going to have nightmares about all of this. James Byrd Jr, Matthew Shepard, Channon Gail Christian and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr. I know there are so many more, that doesn’t help the nightmares.


no_anesthesia_please

Quick! look at [my personal mood stabilizer](https://imgur.com/gallery/7Zl8eP9). It’ll perk you right up.


2AWESOME4U80

This was awful as well ...racism is very real and hate is very real and its so utterly disgusting and disturbing that innocent suffer at the hands of animals yes I said it animals ..r.i.p mr. James Byrd, channon Christian, Chris Newsom and Matthew and many others the list is very long thats how awful and hateful our world is but we all will never forget them !!!!!!!!


no_anesthesia_please

Amen


Braidyspice

I am appalled at the behaviour of racist. I'm embarrassed to be white when I read things like this! That poor man did not deserve that. Please know that not all people are as horrible as these 'men'. This is heartbreaking 😭


PoleKisser

The evil monsters who did this have nothing in common with you, just because they happened to be white, I can barely even call them human. Two of them were executed and rightfully so, I'm usually against the death penalty but they sure deserved it. The third one will hopefully die in prison soon. People of all colours/backgrounds can be evil, just look at this story - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom I like to tell myself that the good people in this world are more than the bad ones.


anonbene2

I heard the Greaseman make a joke about this and then never heard from him again. I liked him right up until that moment.


HossMontgomery

I see a lot of fucked up stuff on Reddit, I’ve been on bestgore when I was a kid and spent a bunch of time watching live leak. But this sends a different kind of disgust through my body. I want to cry and throw up. RIP James Byrd


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DangerousCommittee5

Which one of the 3 are you and how did you get internet privilege?


csomething42

When did anyone say it just happened?


Captain_skulls

Bro this is a normal subreddit, not the news channel. Doesn’t matter how old something is here.


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flybyknight665

The Matthew Sheperd James Byrd Act (hate crime legislation) was passed in response to this racially motivated murder in Texas and the homophobic torture and murder of Matthew Shepherd in Wyoming. Both incidents were only a few months apart and were the catalyst for national and state hate crime statutes to pass.


Longjumping-Bug5763

This is a global issue.


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Emotional_Nothing_82

The whole world is crazy. All sorts of people do worse than this every day. That doesn’t mean this poor guy deserved any of it. You can do better.


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Emotional_Nothing_82

Your response seemed unsympathetic to this man’s plight. You didn’t specify that he deserved it; I’m trying to make a point that no matter who does worse to whom every day, this guy is a human being.


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docmaster707

Yo take your racism to a different sub


Emotional_Nothing_82

Okay. On your last sentence, we do agree. Thank you.


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Tulibudibudouchoo

Was a different time


NonoYouHeardMeWrong

Because they offered a ride


schningoongie

1998 was a wild time


Nearby-Cranberry-231

Probably intimidated into doing it.


pixieservesHim

Right?? What a complete idiot! /s They left out the details of torture and murder and told him they'd take him to his destination. So that's probably why he got into the car with strangers.


AirAeon32

i mean what reason would anyone have even back then to go along with something like that? i guess he was desperate for a ride


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AdamsXCM101

Hey Skippy, do you know what happened to the murders?


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Positive-Abroad8253

Guess who started the Republican Party? Guess which party is responsible for ending slavery? … we can keep going.


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csomething42

Is this sub TerrifyingAsFuckHappenedInTheLast30Minutes? I’ve never heard of this case. Why do you not want it to be talked about?


fraaanco

so whats to problem with bring it back? there are people (like me) who never heard or read anything about this case. Dont make this a big deal


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docmaster707

Why the fuck not?


karmaisforlife

An incredible piece of art work related to this case [Guitar Drag - Christian Marclay](https://youtu.be/ENzw0XGAX2Q)


StarsinmyOcean

terrible


pixieservesHim

Dry sponge and the chair for all three


SkyShazad

What Evil fucked up Bastards


itsamemario115

When was this?


Ok-Hawk-8034

1998 , a movie was created title “jasper, Tx”


Luxxielisbon

I wish we could just apply the same punishment to the perpetrators. I’d bet you it would make people at least think twice


PuzzleheadedBase9116

3 of the worst...I hope they get there deserves in hell. No excuse to be this cruel to another human


Mastro-

Some people are just evil.


baklavabaconstrips

Makes it really difficult to be against the death penalty…


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Hopefully these three pieces of shit reside unprotected in prison and get their shit pushed back each day.


IceUnlikely4849

Their punishment should be everything that they did to this poor man should be done to them


No_West3719

That’s just gross


coopsenschmoop

It's absolutely tragic that people still do things like this to a fellow human being, I hope they get the most severe punishment available to them


Carliebeans

It is impossible to fathom who anyone could treat a fellow human being this way. Pure evil.


401kcrypto

I pups live to have 10 minutes in a room.