Hate Crimes
Today was just like any other day in a small college town named Laramie with a population of 27,000 people. The University of Wyoming is about the only thing happening tonight on this cool evening in October. At a local bar near the campus is where you probably could find most of the young adults in this town. Tonight though, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, two good friends would do something never imagined possible in the city of Laramie. Aaron decided that he wanted rob a guy that happened to attend the nearby university. It started out as just a robbery, but would later become deadly. Aaron pretended that he was gay so that he could pick up a guy by the name of Matthew Shepard who happened to be gay. His plan was to lure him outside to his truck and rob him. Russell and Aaron kidnapped Matthew an
" The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998, introduced in both the House (H.R. 3081) and Senate (S. 1529), seeks to expand federal jurisdiction over hate crimes by (1) allowing federal authorities to investigate all possible hate crimes, not only those where the victim was engaged in a federally protected activity such as voting, going to school, or cross state lines; and (2) expanding the categories that are currently covered by hate crimes legislation to include gender, sexual orientation, and disability." A crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim because of the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person is called a hate crime. There were over 46,000 reported hate crimes based on sexual orientation from 1991 to
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