Word: crimed
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Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
...week full of alarming stories about racial prejudice, the most unsettling was not about the sickening details of how James Byrd Jr. was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to death--a crime that last week led a jury in Jasper, Texas, to impose the death penalty on one of his killers. Nor was the worst situation the continuing fury over the fatal police shooting in New York City of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo or the equally infuriating police shooting of 19-year-old Tyisha Miller last December in Riverside, Calif...
...GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, writes this week on the healing process that the town of Jasper, Texas, has undergone in the wake of a vicious race crime. "Some stories are sheer tragedy, not redeemed by anything," says Gwynne, who has seen his share of sad stories during his 10 years with TIME. "But here, in spite of the horrible deed, the community has repaired itself morally and spiritually. There has been real soul searching...
...surprising for the apartheid South. Emmett's great-uncle Mose Wright testified against Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin to be put on display for four days so the world could...
Renowned for his no-holds-barred approach to crime, Rudolph Giuliani became the nation's first mayor to order police to seize the cars of first-time drunk drivers. Correct that: even some of those who are not convicted may lose their wheels. Touting the O.J. Simpson case as a worthy model (surely another first), Giuliani explained that when an accused drunk driver is cleared in criminal court, the city may still use civil forfeiture statutes to take his car. This might be applied, he said, in cases in which "it's one of those acquittals in which the person...