Justice for Ryan and Something More

Bilerico Nov 04 09

Editors' note: Brian Winfield is the Equality Florida Communications Director. In March of 2007, Ryan Skipper was stabbed 19 times and left to die on a dirt road in rural Polk County, Florida. He was only 25. His killers drove around in his blood-soaked car, bragging how they had killed a gay man.

A jury convicted one of Ryan Skipper's two killers of first-degree murder yesterday. It's all over the evening news. My how times change. Today was the second of two trials, both resulting in a life sentence for each of Ryan's killers. Three young Florida men whose lives are ended in one way or another. Full story...

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