Tag: death penalty

The governor of Florida has signed the death warrant for a convicted serial killer who targeted gay men. Gary Ray Bowles, 57, confessed to killing six men in Florida, Georgia, and Maryland in 1994. Prosecutors believe he targeted because they were gay. In 1994, he killed John Roberts, his first known murder victim. He is believed to have beat and strangled Roberts. He was a suspect because his fingerprints were found on the scene, and he had previous convictions for robbery...

Prosecutors say parents doused boy with pepper spray, forced him to eat his own feces and vomit, put cigarettes out on his skin and beat him with a bat A man will be sentenced to death for murdering his girlfriend’s eight-year-old son because he thought he was gay. Isauro Aguirre, of Palmdale, Los Angeles, was found guilty of a series of brutal and horrifying acts. The torture of Gabriel Fernandez, who died at eight years old, includes dousing the boy in pepper...

President Trump and his administration just voted against a United Nations ban on the death penalty for being gay, making the United States of America (it’s hard to think this is actually really happening) just one of 13 other countries in the world to oppose such a historic vote. A few other notable countries who voted against the ban were China, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. The resolution wasn’t sought to ban the death penalty entirely, but instead to keep...

You might be surprised by some of the Western countries who voted against The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to condemn countries who use the death penalty on gay people. Although the resolution passed with 27 countries voting for the measure – 13 countries including the United States voted against. In the vote on Friday 27 September, seven countries also abstained. Being gay is still punishable by death in six countries including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. Although not countrywide, there...

While this kind of things may be common here in Nigeria, losing the one you love is never anything less than tragic and I truly hope that, if our story cannot get us any help whatsoever, at least the world will know that one man is willing to die to save the one he loves. In am 23 years old and I have known about my sexual orientation since I was 14, although there were things that I could not...