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JASPER, Texas (CNN) -- Three white men, two with suspected links to the Aryan Nation, are being held in connection with the killing of a black man who was beaten, dragged by a truck and decapitated.
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Jasper, located near huge lakes, is not the sagebrush Texas of the West. It is the Texas of the South, part of the Big Pine Belt, stretching from here to Georgia. Timber and bass fishing fuel the economy. ... He said it must have fallen out while Berry, by himself, was killing Byrd. He said the cigarette butts,
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Racist Convicted in Texas Murde ... In the days after Byrd's killing, which trained a national spotlight on this city, stunned residents described it as an aberration, saying blacks and whites here had long lived together. Several city council and school board members are black, as is Jasper's mayor.
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Texas prison officials have said that two of the men charged in Mr. Byrd's slaying, John William King, 23, of Jasper, ... As the groups talked and gesticulated, the three men accused of Mr. Byrd's killing sat in a Jasper County cellblock, waiting to see if the murder charges against them, which carry a life sentence,
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Jasper, Texas: A Historical Perspective on a Brutal Killing ... find The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education articles. Jasper, Texas: A Historical Perspective on a Brutal Killing THE DRAGGING DEATH of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, las... ... THE DRAGGING DEATH of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, last June brings to...
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from a tree. " fested by the good people of Jasper, Texas, against the killing of James Byrd Jr. It is no longer the "red-necks" ...
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JASPER, Texas - Hundreds of people, coming from small nearby towns and cities throughout eastern Texas, joined local residents here, filling the grounds of the Greater New ... A white teacher attending the funeral expressed misgivings that the killing could give the wrong impression that racists had free rein in Jasper.
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JASPER, Texas - John William King was convicted February 23 of capital murder in the June 1998 lynching of James Byrd, Jr. here. ... When the Ku Klux Klan called a rally in the town of 8,000 three weeks after the killing - supposedly to clarify their opposition to the killing - 200 people turned out in an angry protest,
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The verdict from Jasper Texas was swift and predictable: John William King was found guilty of murdering James Byrd, Jr. But this gruesome crime must also be seen as the effect -- the predictable effect -- of a criminal justice system based on violence.
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