States are finally moving to ban the homophobic ‘gay panic’ defence

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A step forward in New Mexico could see another state join the ranks of those banning a pernicious legal principle

The defence infamously got a national airing after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man in Wyoming, who was found tied to a fence barely alive and horrifically beaten in 1998. After he died in hospital several days later, two men were arrested for robbing and killing him.

 

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NikkiBr36113531 Hello there....

So this isn’t real, or you just don’t like what it means?

Some, not all, states, I'm sure.

What a load of bullocks In short, this shaygite means, I was so petrified of this superficial, skin deep accepting, society finding out that I am attracted to the same sex as I, that I thought it best to murder them, based on their disgusting gayness Four King Elle

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