Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for his role in the murder of James Byrd Jr, but it was his last meal request that ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. Byrd, ...

One day after the Georgia execution of convicted cop killer Troy Davis, Texas executed another brutal murderer—Lawrence Russell Brewer, who participated in the racially-tinged dragging death of ...

Working only sporadically, the hands of the clock atop Texas' 19th century Huntsville death house are an uncertain indicator of the hour. For the hundreds of killers whose lives end in the red brick ...

Officials in Texas realized that they’ve been going way too easy on death row inmates, so they’ll no longer be offering a last meal before execution. Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was convicted of the ...

Media members and a few protestors have begun gathering in Huntsville where convicted killer James Russell Brewer is just hours away from execution. Brewer is set for execution at 6 p.m. for his role ...

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- One of the white men sentenced to death for chaining a black man to a pickup truck and dragging him until he died has asked a judge for an execution date. Lawrence Russell ...

BEAUMONT -- One of the two men condemned for the notorious 1998 dragging death of a black man from Jasper is asking for an execution date. In a letter dated April 2, Lawrence Russell Brewer wrote to ...

A study conducted by Cornell University concluded that death row inmates tend to pile on the comfort food in their final days of life. Nutrition and calories don't mean much in the face of impending ...

James Byrd Jr., shown in this 1997 family photo, was tied to a truck and dragged to his death along a rural East Texas road early Sunday, June 7, 1998, near Jasper, Texas. Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, ...