Word: crimed
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There needs to be a defense against the defense that "homophobia made me do it." Forty states have hate-crime laws, and studies show that added measures can make a difference. Some critics fear that speech will be curtailed in the zeal to get at all those bias incidents classified as "intimidation." But the Supreme Court has found that laws protecting gays don't violate free speech. It refused to hear the case of a preacher in New Jersey who said the state's antidiscrimination law protecting gays violated his First Amendment rights. It's a misplaced fear to think...
...said, is between Schumer and a TV camera.) And this time, some of D'Amato's old tricks haven't been working. He and his consultant, the reclusive Arthur Finkelstein, like to brand opponents as hopelessly, shamelessly, endlessly liberal, but Schumer supports the death penalty and wrote the 1994 Crime Bill, which put 100,000 cops on the beat, so the charge hasn't stuck. Schumer has authored major gun-control legislation (the Brady Bill and the assault-weapon ban), and he supports campaign-finance reform and abortion rights, both popular positions in New York. D'Amato toes the N.R.A...
...addition to being an unspeakably gruesome crime, it was a profoundly dumb one. After allegedly leaving Shepard hanging on the fence on that rocky ridge just outside of town, McKinney and Henderson drew attention to themselves by getting into a fight with two other men. It was then, police say, that they found a bloody .357 Magnum in the pickup truck, and Shepard's wallet in McKinney's house. McKinney, by the way, was awaiting sentencing for burglarizing a Kentucky Fried Chicken...
SENTENCED. JEREMY STROHMEYER, 20, convicted molester and murderer of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson; to life in prison without parole; in Las Vegas. Strohmeyer asked for forgiveness but blasted his former friend David Cash for watching the brutal crime without intervening, saying of Cash, "He makes me sick...
...spent the weekend raising millions of campaign dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken when...