Hate crime: Timeline

1970   Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.

1998   A college College

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 dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.

1999   In Jasper, Texas, testimony begins in the trial of John William King who is accused of dragging African American African American

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 James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime. King is later convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.

1999   In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder Murder

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, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard Matthew Shepard

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