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Title: Killer Of Transwoman Gets Just Five Years For The Crime
Post by: Shana A on October 15, 2008, 08:21:02 AM

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

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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.

Title: Re: Killer Of Transwoman Gets Just Five Years For The Crime
Post by: goingdown on October 15, 2008, 09:23:09 AM

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

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