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“Help stop torture from spreading”
Do you know Matthew Shepard? He was ranked number 33 on the saddest deaths. Matthew was a normal 21 year old going to university of Wyoming. He was “he was a young man that could relate to everyone, also was the type of person that was very approachable and always looked to new challenges. Matthew had a great passion for equality and always stood up for the acceptance of people’s differences.” Says his father. During a High School trip in February 1995 were he was beaten and raped, which caused him to have depression, and panic attacks. One night on October 8, 1998, Matthew met some “friends” to give him a “ride home”. His friends drove the car into a rural area instead and continued to rob, whip, and torture Matthew, than they
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He had a fractured skill, and his face was covered in blood after the attack. He was founded 18 hours later. He was barely alive. He went to the hospital and suffered from fractures to the back of his head in front of his right ear. He had severe brain damage, which effected his heart rate, and body temperature. He also had about a dozen wounds around his face, head, neck His injuries were too severe for doctors to operate on. Matthew never regains consciousness and remained on full life support. Matthew Shepard was pronounced dead on October, 12, 2009. Matthew Shepard act congress passed. And in October 28 2009 president barrack Obama signed the legislation into a law. Help us crate a safe place for our future generations. Or our grandkids will live in a world full of heat, and torture, were everybody is to scared to just go outside to get the mail. We can’t let torture

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