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Is Killing Liberals a Hate Crime?

Slate finds few states consider political violence a hate crime

By Drew Nelles,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 31, 2008 5:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – The suspect in last weekend’s Knoxville church shooting told police that “liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country.” But Tennessee, like the federal government and most states, doesn’t extend hate-crime law to political affiliation, explains Chris Wilson in...   Read full story »

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