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A 68-year-old man was choked to death by a friend during an evening of drinking. The reason given by the 55-year-old suspect: homosexual advances that sent him into a murderous rage.

The defense for a model and stripper who witnesses say was using drugs just prior to having killed a man may be planning to use a variation of the so-called "gay panic" defense.

Jurors in Florida rejected a "gay panic" defense, finding a 28-year-old man guilty of murder in the choking and stabbing death of a 60-year-old man.

Right wing pundits are outraged that Steven Nary, a former U.S. Naval servicemember, has been denied parole after being incarcerated for 13 years following the killing of a Hispanic activist who Nary says attempted to rape him.

The defense in a murder trial in a rural Texas county says that the accused stabbed and beat the victim in self defense rather than endure a sexual assault.