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Matthew Shepard's Killers Deny Attack Was Hate Crime in First Interviews Since Gay Student's 1998 Death - from TBO.com: "CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - In their first public interview since attacking gay college student Matthew Shepard, his killers said they were motivated not by homophobia, but the prospect of robbery to fuel a methamphetamine binge.
'He was pretty well-dressed, had a wallet full of money,' Aaron McKinney said of meeting Shepard at a Laramie bar in October 1998. 'All I wanted to do was beat him up and rob him. ... Seemed like a good idea at the time.'
The interviews air Friday on ABC's '20/20.'
The robbery got out of hand, said McKinney and his buddy, Russell Henderson, and Shepard was beaten into a coma while tied to a fence outside the small college town. The 21-year-old died five days later. "

OH REALLY??

Although the conviction left McKinney eligible for the death penalty, Shepard’s parents agreed to let McKinney be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, saying their son would have wanted it that way. “I really don’t know what to say other than that I’m truly sorry to the entire Shepard family,” an emotional McKinney said in court Friday before his sentencing. “Never will a day go by I won’t be ashamed for what I have done.” McKinney’s actions in jail contradict that show of remorse, however, DeBree said. McKinney had laughed about the case and repeatedly used derogatory terms about gay men to refer to Shepard, including such references in letters, he said.

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