Everyone mocked him for marr

in 2011, when Lawrence Russell Brewer turned his last meal into a spectacle.

His extravagant order and deliberate refusal to touch it became a final provocation,

not only to the state but to the memory of James Byrd Jr., whose murder had horrified the country.

The backlash was swift. To lawmakers and many victims’ families,

Brewer’s untouched feast felt continue reading …