South Carolina still doesn't have a hate crimes law
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/OPINION/810110311/1004/NEWS0110/11/2008
This week, all around our country, Americans have mourned the 10-year
observance since the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard. Matthew's
remembrance evokes memories that are hard to relive -- memories of a
promising 21-year-old college student beaten to death and tied to a
fence outside of Laramie, Wyo., just because he was gay. Watching the
coverage of this high-profile case, I could not foresee that a similar
tragedy would happen in my own family a few years later.
