HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The man sentenced to death for one of the most gruesome murders in modern American history showed no remorse before his execution. John William King was executed by the Texas ...

A new law that makes lynching a federal hate crime addresses an atrocity that continues to this day. By Charles M. Blow Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the ...

A man who helped orchestrate one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history — the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in East Texas — is slated to die Wednesday over the objections of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Barack Obama (L) claps with Louvon Harris (C) and Betty Byrd Boatner, the sisters of James Byrd, Jr., who was a victim ...

For 20 minutes after he was sentenced to die, John William “Bill” King wasn’t simply a symbol of racial hatred and evil. His heartbroken father, sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube in his nose ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — It’s been more than two decades since an infamous hate crime in East Texas, where three white men were convicted of chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck, dragging him ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history has been executed in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. John William King, who was ...

In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming- and James Byrd Jr.- an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas- provoked a passionate public ...

JASPER, Texas -- A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community's ...

On this date in history: In 1776, the Lee Resolution, which led to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was introduced in the Continental Congress. In 1864, Republican delegates meeting in Baltimore ...