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...ever a crime cried out for grave punishment, it's this one. King and two friends were driving a 1982 Ford pickup in the early-morning hours last June. They spotted Byrd, 49, an unemployed vacuum-cleaner salesman, walking home from a party on a lonely stretch of Highway 96 and offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist...
...went to school with them. (The black jury foreman was a classmate at Jasper High School.) King's life took a bad turn after his junior year of high school, when he was arrested for burglary--along with Shawn Berry, one of the two men with him in the pickup last June. The two were sent to boot camp together. Upon release, however, King violated probation and was given an eight-year prison term in July...
...racial slurs denouncing blacks, Jews, Hispanics and a variety of "race traitors." White women who date blacks are "whores," he said, and they should "hang from the same tree as their black boyfriends." At Beto, King shared a cell with Lawrence Brewer Jr., the third man in the pickup truck the night Byrd was killed...
Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery 'OO and McComma Grayson 'OO met while playing a game of Red Light, Green light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms-competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football-but when homerooms ended in the fifth grade, this rivalry turned into friendship. Since then it's been happily ever after. "It sounds pathetic," Aaron confesses, "but we do have a lot of the same friends and we hang together. And a lot of times we know the same people but independent of each...
...Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery `00 and McComma Grayson `00 met while playing a game of Red Light, Green Light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms--competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football--but when homerooms ended in the fifth grade, this rivalry turned into friendship. Since then it's been happily ever after. "It sounds pathetic," Aaron confesses, "but we do have a lot of the same friends and we hang together. And a lot of times we know the same people but independent of each...