Four Jackson, Mississippi, men have been ordered to pay $840,000 to the estate of James Craig Anderson, a Black man they murdered on June 26, 2011.
The four men Deryl Paul Dedmon, 23; John Aaron Rice, 23; Dylan Wade Butler, 24; and William Kirk Montgomery, 26 were convicted in 2012 of committing a racially motivated act that resulted in Anderson’s death. They were each convicted on a variety of charges and for varying lengths of time, with Dedmon sentenced to the most at 50 years.
In addition to Dedmon, Rice, Butler and Montgomery, Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp, 23; John Louis Blalack, 21; Joseph Paul Dominick, 24; Shelbie Brooke Richards, 22; and Sarah Adelia Graves, 22, all pleaded guilty to various charges for their participation on the night of the murder.
