The assault is the first to be investigated as an alternative subculture hate crime.
In all, 7, 783 hate crimes were included in the FBI's 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report.
Federal authorities called his murder a hate crime, inspired by the victim's race or nationality.
Prosecutors said Erika Menendez, 31, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime.
British Transport Police are investigating two unconnected hate crime incidents on board trains in central Scotland.
BBC: Police investigate hate crimes on central Scotland trains
"All hate crime is abhorrent and we will not tolerate it, " the force said.
Being charged with murder as a hate crime means he could face a harsher sentence if convicted.
The Cornwall Racial Equality Council said it was "disability hate crime that was most on the rise".
The Egyptian Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, called the incident a "totally unjustified hate crime".
This week, Maryland will likely join 30 other states that denote violence against gays as a hate crime.
Ch Insp Kerry Blakeman said the force had not seen an increase in figures for the hate crime.
And during the course of the investigation we uncovered absolutely nothing that indicated this was a hate crime.
But university officials have said they do not think the attack was carried out as a "hate crime".
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Legislation is under consideration to significantly broaden what can be prosecuted as a hate crime, CNN has learned.
Of the cases of hate crime that went to court last year, more than 80% resulted in convictions.
Defense attorneys for the Amish are attacking the group's prosecution under the federal hate crime statute, passed in 2009.
Morales faces a charge of second-degree murder as a hate crime, authorities said.
The "I Want to Report a Hate Crime" card aims to tackle prejudice and crime against someone with a disability.
BBC: Hate crime card to help disabled people in Warwickshire
The card will also contain telephone numbers of people to call if they have been a victim of hate crime.
BBC: Hate crime card to help disabled people in Warwickshire
However, former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, said he had reservations about changing the legal definition of a hate crime.
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The judge at the trial of the five teenage attackers called the assault on Lancaster and her boyfriend a hate crime.
"Everyday people with an unusual appearance and other disfigurements suffer bullying, ridicule and hate crime, " said Changing Faces founder James Partridge.
In a report for the Southern Poverty Law Center called Discounting Hate, Potok concluded that hate crime statistics are plagued with inaccuracy.
Prosecutors argued that the group cut the beards and hair of other members because hair carries spiritual significance, hence the hate crime.
"They don't want to push that issue, " he said, adding that he thinks they also don't want to investigate a hate crime.
Champion told CNN that there is "no evidence at all" that Darby killed Butts out of hate, or as a hate crime.
Murder and hate crime charges were filed on Friday accusing him and another man of killing three strangers because they were black.
The truth is Gov. Bush took the conventional conservative position that hate crime legislation was a dangerous increase of authority for prosecutors.
The protesters said they should have been charged with a hate crime.
It also pledges to tackle alcohol related crime, domestic abuse, hate crime and "changing the wider culture in our society towards violence".
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