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Hours before the execution of Troy Davis, his antithesis, Lawrence Brewer, was killed in the state of Texas in almost indifference. The racist murder of which he was convicted had shocked the United States.

While the eyes of the world were focused on Georgia, where Davis was waiting to be executed, another has been sentenced to death by lethal injection in Texas in the almost universal indifference. Indeed, all separated by Lawrence Davis Brewer. The latter, aged 44, was convicted with two other accomplices, a sordid racist murder in the late 1990s.

Small strikes, joined a pro-white racist organization after a stay in prison, Lawrence Brewer said the last day does not regret the murder of the father of Black 49. As summarized by one member of the Movement for the Abolition of the death penalty in Texas, Lawrence Brewer “is not a nice guy.”

On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, who can not afford a car, walking in the town of Jasper, Texas a small community of 7,000 people a hundred miles of Houston. It took a lift by three men: John William King, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Berry. Fifteen miles later, the pickup stops on a lonely road. James Byrd was beaten and fainted. It is then tied by the legs with a chain connected to the vehicle.

The three men dragged the body of the father of nearly five miles on a country road, taking care to zigzag the vehicle so that the body horehound from left to right. James Byrd, who has regained consciousness, trying to protect itself by moving up on his forearms. But it was soon skinned elbows to the bone. His head then hits an obstacle on the road. He was beheaded on the spot. The three men leave what remains of the body a few yards away.

Relief continued to try to achieve, Tuesday, Aug. 30, thousands of Americans still cut off by floods, two days after Hurricane Irene, which was at least forty-three deaths in the United States .

Many roads are impassable after Irene dumped the equivalent of two months of rain (21 cm) in just twenty-four hours.

‘The problem is the inaccessibility’ said the head of emergency operations. Teams continue to root out the vehicles from the muddy waters are occupied and to identify the fallen trees on public roads, causing power lines down with them. In many places, emergency assistance must be distributed to residents by boat or by air.

The situation is similar in many parts of New Jersey and New York, where schools and community centers have been transformed into shelters. According to official figures, at least forty-three people died in eleven states during the transition from Irene in the U.S., including seven in New Jersey and eight in the State of New York.

During its passage through the Caribbean before hitting the U.S., Irene was left five people dead. Another person died in Canada, bringing the total balance of forty-nine dead.