According to The Advocate,Congressional Democrats have filed a bill to outlaw the exhaust of the “homosexual panic” defense.
The “homosexual panic” defense has previously been used in court to either acquit or give lighter sentences to assailants of LGBT people, because their identity caused the assailant to “panic” at the time.
Introduced by Senator Edward Markey and U.
S. Representative Joseph Kennedy III, or the homosexual and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act would outlaw the “homosexual panic” or “trans panic” defense as a legal defense in federal court.
Representative Kennedy told the Washington Blade on Friday,“Legal loopholes written into our laws that seek to justify violent attacks against our homosexual, lesbian, and bisexual and transgender neighbors should never have existed in the first place,” adding that it “is not a defense, it is a abhor crime.”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com