The Wichita Non-Hate Murders -

The Wichita Non-Hate Murders - Notes on the testimony of the single survivor of a rape-murder binge in Wichita that left four dead.

As reported in this space earlier, this crime has all the hallmarks of a hate crime - racial motivations, degradation of the victims (rape, sodomy) before the murders, and a quadruple (attempted quintuple) execution-style shooting.

But it's not being prosecuted as a hate crime (albeit the death penalty is on the table). Which is, on the one hand, OK, if you're being consistent about things. Conservatives oppose creating special classes of victims.

But Kansas does have a hate-crime statute. The fact that it's not being invoked in this case (even though it is a capital case) shows the dishonesty of hate crime laws, at least in that jurisdiction (although one might suspect many more would follow suit).