Killer Of Transwoman Gets Just Five Years For The Crime

[Shana A]

Killer Of Transwoman Gets Just Five Years For The Crime (+)
by: Autumn Sandeen
Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:00:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=2FF2AD61F372FE31AF91CD90A7BB00CE?diaryId=7565

Kathy Padilla sent me a link to an article from the Philadelphia Gay News entitled Killer of trans woman sentenced to 5 years. She prefaced her email about the sentencing of Alexis King's killer by sending me the link with this statement:

    I suppose I should feel grateful any sentence was imposed at all.

Since a panic defense was raised, I suppose Kathy, our transgender peers, and I should feel grateful that Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart didn't, in this bench trial, acquit the now convicted killer.

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Federal hate crime laws and repealling the gay panic defense would be right things to do. The man should have  get a life sentence.