Kansas has no hate-crime law. I don't suppose you thought to check on that before bringing up the Witchita murder case, did you? And for the record, the two guys who did it were convicted and are on death row. Lack of a hate crime law really impeaded justice in their case, didn't it?
Actually, no, I didn't think to check. 42 states have them, so even if we both will pretend that I had that much investigative zeal but simply negelected to do so, we can say I was simply going with the odds. Thanks for the correction. I was just remembering the frustration on FR that it would not be prosecuted as a Hate Crime... I didn't recall any reasons given.