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Out of Matthew Shepard's tragic murder, a commitment to punishing hate crimes emerged

  • Written by Lara Schwartz, Professorial Lecturer, Department of Government, American University School of Public Affairs

On an October night in 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, driven to a remote field, tied to a fence and left to die. The cyclist who found him reported that the unconscious young man’s face was covered with blood except where tears had washed the skin clean.

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