Maryland man sentenced to 48 years for murder of transgender woman Taya Ashton
Prosecutors said DeAllen Price killed Ashton because she was transgender.
January 25, 2024
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Prosecutors said DeAllen Price killed Ashton because she was transgender.
Gov. Chris Sununu signed the bill to this effect last week.
A bipartisan bill eliminating use of the controversial tactic was pulled last week over objections by some lawmakers.
Isimemen Etute says he thought Jerry Paul Smith was a woman when they met for sex. He later beat Smith to death.
The legislation would prevent defendants from claiming that a crime was justified by the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity.
The bill will now go to the state's Senate for a vote.
Gov. Jared Polis signed the bills into law Monday, along with one making it easier for minors to change the gender on their birth certificates.
The legislation was championed by out lawmakers, including Eric Morrison and Sarah McBride.
The first out transgender person elected to office in Montana invoked a recent attack on someone the attacker claimed was trans in support of her bill outlawing the panic defense.
The bill would forbid defendants from claiming in court that they were temporarily incapacitated with shock over discovering a potential partner's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill into law that bars criminal defendants from using homophobic and transphobic arguments in court.
Andrew Cuomo's action comes shortly after the signing of similar bills in Hawaii and Connecticut.
HB 4718 prohibits using the "sexual orientation or gender identity of a victim as a defense to a crime."
Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton used a trans panic defense after he killed Jennifer Laude in 2014.
Attacking an LGBT person after they make an unwanted sexual advance is indefensible, opponents say.
Assailants are now banned from claiming they committed hate crimes or murders "in the heat of passion" upon finding out the victim was LGBTQ.
No one disputes that the killer stabbed a gay man twice in the back. But, they say, it was self-defense.
New Hampshire was on the brink of banning the "gay panic" defense, until the law was put on hold at the last minute.