Soldier Convicted In Homophobic Slaying Released From Prison

[LostInTime]

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Former Army Specialist Justin Fisher, who was convicted of conspiracy in the murder of Private First Class Barry Winchell at Fort Campbell, Ky., has been released from prison after serving seven years of an original 12 and one half-year sentence.

Winchell, was perceived as gay because he was seeing Calpernia Addams, a pre-op transsexual.  Winchell was beaten to death with a baseball bat in his barracks by Calvin Glover, a former soldier based at Fort Campbell.

Following the murder an investigation by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network found that Winchell had been the target of constant anti-gay harassment in the months leading up to his killing
Posted on: October 24, 2006, 03:19:06 PMAnother article here.

"Seven years after the murder of Pfc. Winchell, the military has done little to protect its troops from another Justin Fisher," SLDN executive director C. Dixon Osburn said in the release.

The group wants the Department of Defense to end the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy because they say it does not curb anti-homosexual harassment.

[Ricki]

L in T,

I know or knew that dogma all to well in my time i walked a very thin straight line and had to be so very very careful.....
Damn shame!  Although as i've said in other areas, my God judges poeple not everyone just gets a free ticket into heaven....A lot fo these people will suffer or pay a severe price for some of their actions in this lifetime when they enter their next!
PEace
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