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Black trans woman Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe was found shot dead in her car in South Carolina. Now, her killer has been found guilty.
The first LGBT-related indictment brought by the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act came down Thursday against two Kentucky men accused of kidnapping a gay man.
Jimmy Garza and Ramiro Serrata, Jr., have pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges stemming from a brutal attack on a gay black man in 2012.
The murder of Matthew Shepard shocked the nation -- but it took 11 years after the crime to pass an LGBT-inclusive federal hate-crimes law.
The men were sentenced under a federal hate-crimes law named for Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
A new report released by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law shows that the rate of bias crimes committed against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals is comparable to that of other groups already covered by federal hate-crimes laws.
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murder of Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman, in the first federal trial for a hate crime based on the victim’s perceived gender identity.
John Russell Howald had previously served two years in prison for decapitating a neighbor’s dog with a chainsaw.
The Justice Department announced the indictment of two men under the Matthew Shepard law earlier this week and already have a development in the case's prosecution.
This year marks our best chance yet to get a federal hate-crimes law passed and signed into law. It would give the government the power to prosecute anti-LGBT crimes and law enforcement the resources to investigate them properly. So let's make sure it happens.
Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for federal hate crimes and firearms charges for the mass shooting that left five people dead and around 20 injured.
Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to add crimes motivated by gender Identity and sexual orientation to those covered by federal hate-crimes law.
The unrepentant white supremacist, who fatally shot nine black church members during a Bible study session, is the first person ordered to be executed for a federal hate crime.
Daniel Andrew McGee of Oregon, who faces federal hate-crime charges, told police he'd had nightmares directing him to kill a gay man he met on Grindr.
James Alex Fields, Jr. ran down protester Heather Heyer at a white nationalist rally last year.
Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded not guilty to the new charges, which were announced Tuesday in Denver.
Because Idaho doesn't have a hate crimes law that covers sexual orientation, the U.S. government sought to indict the defendant on a federal hate crime charge.
A new Gallup poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans support the hate-crimes bill now before Congress. The bill would expand federal hate-crimes law to cover crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.
Kelly Schneider pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for kicking Steven Nelson to death at a remote wildlife refuge in Idaho, according to Reuters.
