THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – In 1982, Texas was the first in the world to execute an inmate by lethal injection, its first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

After the capital murder trials of three men who dragged James Byrd Jr., a Black man, for 3 miles and left his body outside an African American church in 1998, Jasper County was forced to raise ...

Gabrielle Byrd, a Miami University Urban Cohort student and freelance ... including the growing issue of chronic absenteeism. Anthony James, professor and interim chair of family science and social ...

A leader of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang, has died in state prison almost 10 years after ...

James Byrd Junior in Jasper County.KFDM reflects back on the turbulent time in history and explores how Jasper w ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A bridge is being dedicated to honor former Wake County Sheriff's Deputy Ned Byrd. The NC Board of Transportation approved the bridge renaming of the Auburn-Knightdale Road ...

Deputy Ned P. Byrd was shot and killed near the intersection of Battle Bridge and Auburn Knightdale roads southeast of ...

A Daviess Circuit Judge ruled Friday prosecutors will not be able to use any of the confession Jeremiah T. Byrd gave sheriff’s department detectives regarding the 2022 shooting death of ...

The North Carolina Board of Transportation approved a resolution to name a bridge in the memory of a Wake County deputy killed in the line of duty, the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

The attorney for Jeremiah T. Byrd argued Friday that no part of the confession Byrd gave detectives in the 2022 death of Gay Mee Paw should be usable by prosecutors in Byrd’s upcoming trial. Daviess ...