It was a local story. Wichita police caught them. A Kansas court tried them. A Kansas jury convicted them. And the Kansas prison system is going to kill them. And I honestly could not care less if the rest of the country is miffed because they weren't kept up to date, minute by minute, on the progress.
Oh like the James Bryd dragging death in Jasper County, Texas was a local story? A jury of 11 whites and 1 black took just 2 and a half ours to convict the leader of the group of 3 thugs who murdered Byrd and that jury awarded him the death penalty. The second defendant later convicted in a separate trial and awarded the death penalty. The third defendant received a life sentence in a plea bargain deal in exchange for testifying against the other two defendants at their trials.
I think the State of Texas acted admirably in providing support to the local prosecutors, reimbursing Jasper County for the costs of the investigation and trial, and making sure everything was done professionally making sure any resulting convictions and sentences would hold up on appeal. The national press, especially the New York Times impugned the whole State of Texas including all its white citizens, and our governor in an effort to make cheap shot political points against the presumed Republican presidential candidate in the upcoming 2000 elections. The only reason the James Byrd's murderers are still alive is due to anti death penalty advocates, on whom the left wing press including the New York Times dotes, who constantly file spurrious lawsuits to try abolish through activist courts a lawful and constitutional punishment that they have failed misably to abolish through the political branches of government.
I guarantee you that if the race of the victims and criminals in the Carr brothers case were reversed, every national and international news organization would have sent reporters to Kansas to smear its reputation.