A Death in Texas
A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
by Dina Temple-Raston
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"Before 1998 few Americans had ever heard of Jasper, Texas. That all changed on June 7, 1998, when a trio of young white men chained a forty-nine-year-old black man named James Byrd Jr. to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road. In the hours after Byrd's body was found in pieces on Huff Creek Road, Jasper's white community tried to believe that one of their own had not committed the crime.
That hope was shattered when the trail of blood and evidence led directly to two local men, Bill King and Shawn Berry, and King's former jailhouse companion Russell Brewer. Within twenty-four hours, Sheriff Billy Rowles had gotten a confession and the trio was charged with capital murder.".
"From the initial investigation through the trials and their aftermath, A Death in Texas follows the turns of events through the eyes of Billy Rowles - an enlightened lawman determined to take lessons from the tragedy - and other townspeople trying to come to grips with the killing."--BOOK JACKET.
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Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
2003, Holt & Company, Henry
in English
1466818794 9781466818798
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A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
January 10, 2003, Holt Paperbacks
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in English
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A death in Texas: a story of race, murder, and a small town's struggle for redemption
2002, H. Holt, Henry Holt
in English
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0805066527 9780805066524
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"JASPER LIES ON the eastern edge of what Texans call the "Big Thicket," a triangle of woods that runs south to Beaumont, north to Corrigan, and ends on the banks of the Trinity River."
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