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Murdered Mississippi mayoral candidate's family says death was a hate crime

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 3:51pm by Hannah Moch, National News Media Intern at GLAAD

The family of murdered Mississippi mayoral candidate Marco McMillian now believes his death was a hate crime. The family said they had received information from the Coahoma County coroner's office regarding the state of McMillian's body, which led them to believe that "this was not a random act of violence."

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Remembering Matthew Shepard

Friday, October 12, 2012 - 9:45am by Brendan Davis, Digital Content Manager at GLAAD

Matthew’s death changed the way people viewed and talked about LGBT people, and eventually led to the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a federal law against bias-motivated crimes targeting LGBT people, among others.

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UPDATE: Suspect Charged in Jorge Steven López Case – No Hate Crime Charge at this Time

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 1:02pm by Seth Adam, GLAAD's Senior Manager of Communications

Juan Martínez Matos – the man who has confessed to brutally murdering, decapitating and dismembering 19 year-old Jor

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