extended to crimes against homosexuals already the definition of hate crimes "
The U.S. Congress passed a law against 'homophobia that puts the violence and attacks against homosexuals in the list of "hate crimes" , punishable by strict federal law passed after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 for crimes caused by racial hatred.
The law, which now goes to the obvious signs of Barack Obama, has been dedicated to the memory of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming asassinato a student 11 years ago because homosexual .
Matthew Shepard was a student twenty-one when he was attacked and beaten by two peers and left for 18 hours tied to a fence. His assailants bound him to a fence. Matthew feels that they want to kill him and begged them to let him live, but his assailants continued to beat him, so hard to split the cranio.Credendo he was dead, his assailants left his body attached to the fence as a trophy.
Matthew remains exposed for 18 hours at a temperature close to zero, before an accidental fall from mountain bike face fall at his feet a cyclist who initially believes that he has to do with a scarecrow, but when he realizes that Matthew is alive, he hastens to warn the rescue. The young cyclist is convinced that it was a miracle because it literally fell on Matthew , just so he could call for help that they have helped Matthew to live another four days, where his family could see him first of his death. died October 12, 1998.
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