Lawrence Russell Brewer
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- —
- Location
- —
- Date of birth
- March 13, 1967
- Age at first offence
- 31
- Characteristics
- white supremacist, rape?, torture, decapitation, dismemberment
- Victim profile
- James Byrd, Jr., 49 (black man)
- Method of murder
- Chained by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to death Loca tion : Jasper County, Texas, USA
- Date(s) of murder
- June 7, 1998
- Years active
- 1998
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
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Executed
Sentenced to death on September 23, 1999; executed by lethal injection in Texas on September 21, 2011
Case details
Lawrence Russell Brewer was a white male born 03/13/1967. His TDCJ number was 999327. He was 44 at the time of his execution.
Background
Brewer had prior criminal history and had served prison sentences in Texas. During the punishment phase of his capital murder trial, jurors learned that he had previously been convicted of burglary of a habitation in 1986 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, probated for 7 years. He was again convicted of burglary of a habitation in 1987 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, probated for 10 years. His probation was revoked in 1987 and he was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
In 1988, Brewer was released on parole. In 1989, he was convicted of possession of a controlled substance cocaine. His parole was revoked and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1991, Brewer was released on parole again. In 1993, his parole was revoked for failure to report to his parole officer, and he was returned to prison to serve his 15-year sentence. In 1997, Brewer was released again on parole and remained on parole until he was arrested for the murder of James Byrd Jr. in 1998.
During court discussion, it was argued that Brewer and his co-defendants engaged in the criminal act in part due to their racially separatist affiliation with the Confederate Knights of America and the Ku Klux K
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