...his suspected attackers was enough."It leaves me wondering why Georgia is one of five states that doesn't have a hate crime law on the state level," he said.Metro police spokeswoman Gena Moore said the incident is being monitored by her department's...

...daughter could renew the call for a hate crime law in Georgia. The state is one of five without a hate crime law on the books after the Georgia...Matthew Shepard in 1998. State hate crime laws vary widely. Mr. Nigut said he...

...legislators Thursday to enact a hate-crime law as a way to curb retaliation...studying whether Georgia needs a hate-crime law that such a statute would reduce...General Assembly enacted its own hate-crime law in 2000, though lawmakers didn't...

ATLANTA - A push to reinstitute Georgia's hate crimes law cleared a Senate committee Tuesday, marking the latest chapter in the legislation's rocky eight-year history. The Senate's...

ATLANTA - The state House denied a Senate effort Monday to revive Georgia's defunct hate-crimes law in a lightning-quick vote that caught most lawmakers off guard. The measure by Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta, had passed...

...reversed itself and rehired him.Woman honored for hate-crime law workGREENVILLE, S.C. --- The mother of a gay...Kennedy has pushed for South Carolina to adopt a hate crimes law because police say her son's attacker punched him...

...contending that Green violated Sweden's tough 2003 hate crimes law. A lower court gained international attention last...was the first clergyman convicted under Sweden's hate crimes law. Green, 63, had told his congregation on the small...

I read withpleasant surprise an editorialin The Augusta Chronicle calling for the defeat of hate-crime legislation in the state of Georgia, and by extension,everywhere else ("Don't make hate a crime," Dec. 22).Jim Moore, Aiken, S.C.

...accurately, resurrected - the hate-crime law - and rightfully so. The four-year-old...Although nearly all states have hate-crime laws, Georgia's was the only one...they have to do is let it lie. Hate-crime laws are emotionally satisfying...

...Court threw out the state's hate-crimes law for being unconstitutional...Porter said. Though 48 states had hate-crimes laws in effect, Georgia's was the...strike down the 4-year-old hate-crimes law in late October. The law ended...