Andrade gets 60 more years in prison

Angie Zapata’s killer gets 60 years on top of his life sentence as a result of CO’s 3-strikes law.

Extra time for transwoman’s killer

(Denver, Colorado) A man already serving a life sentence for the murder of transsexual teen 18-year-old Angie Zapata has been handed an extra 60 years to his sentence.

Allen Ray Andrade was convicted of murder after beating Zapata to death with a fire extinguisher in July 2008 and sentenced to life …

‘We still teach hate,’ says mother of murdered gay man

GARY — Judy Shepard doesn’t forgive the men who killed her son, but she doesn’t blame them, either.
Shepard, at Indiana University Northwest on Wednesday night to talk about the torture and murder of her son, Matthew Shepard, said she gets “the forgiveness question” a lot when she talks to groups.
Mostly, she’s just confused by the thought, but what she knows for sure is that the two men who brutally murdered Matthew — Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, who are serving life sentences — weren’t taught any better.
Thus, Shepard has made it her mission in the almost 10 years since his death to teach everyone possible that hate is a learned behavior that needs to be stopped.
“We still teach hate; it has to be a conscious decision to not go there,” said Shepard, invited to speak by IUN’s Center for Regional Excellence and Merrillville High School’s Socially Together and Naturally Diverse organization.
At times comical, Shepard described her home state of Wyoming as “not a hateful place at all,” but it is 96 percent white, with the rest of the 500,000-resident population either Native American or Latino. Even after the murder, Wyoming still hasn’t passed hate-crime legislation that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual specifics, though Laramie, where the murder took place, has an ordinance against it.
Indiana also doesn’t have hate-crime legislation specific to the LGBT community, either, and she pointed out it likely won’t happen until something is passed at the federal level. Nevertheless, she remains hopeful. See ‘We still teach hate,’ says mother of murdered gay man
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Life sentence in UK gay slaying

(London) A 20-year old Liverpool man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of an 18-year old gay man who was brutally beaten and dumped on a street to die.

James O’Connor was 19 when he beat and kicked Michael Causer to death after a drunken party. He was …

Life sentence for murder of Ryan Skipper

(Bartow, Florida) Joseph Bearden, a known methamphetamine addict, has been sentenced to life behind bars for his part in the killing of Ryan Skipper in 2007. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

The jury took two days to find Bearden guilty Friday of second-degree murder, theft of a motor vehicle, accessory …

Life sentence for TG woman’s killer

`Neo-Nazi’ beliefs behind Asian, gay murders

A white supremacist convicted of killing Korean backpacker Jae Hyeon Kim was also responsible for the murder of a homosexual Westport man in 1999 and will now spend at least 25 years behind bars.

Hayden Brent McKenzie, 31, appeared for sentencing in the High Court at Wellington yesterday after earlier admitting murdering Kim at Charleston, near Westport, in September or October 2003. McKenzie’s name suppression was lifted yesterday, but Justice Simon France made an order preventing publication of images of McKenzie or any description of his appearance.

The lifting of suppression means it can be revealed that in 2004 McKenzie was convicted and was four years into a life sentence for his part in the murder of James John (Janis) Bambrough in 1999 at Westport.

Yesterday, the judge sentenced McKenzie to another life sentence, this time with a non-parole period of 21 years.

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