Personally, I don't believe in hate crime. There is just crime. Murder is killing someone without sufficient cause. "Hate", which can be defined in a myriad of ways, is just a subset of "without sufficient cause".
Another thing is the fallacy of legal piling on. If someone commits multiple counts of capital murder regardless of the penalty society places upon such a combination of felonies, will it matter if you tack on some additional penalty? Call it a hate crime? Add a few "gun charges" to the legal docket? Another few years jail sentence after execution or N consecutive life sentences? It's all just rabbit vote pandering.
Another thing is the fallacy of legal piling on. If someone commits multiple counts of capital murder regardless of the penalty society places upon such a combination of felonies, will it matter if you tack on some additional penalty? Call it a hate crime? Add a few "gun charges" to the legal docket? Another few years jail sentence after execution or N consecutive life sentences? It's all just rabbit vote pandering.