Chile: 4 guilty of murder of gay man that prompted a hate crimes law
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Four Chilean men have been found guilty of first-degree murder for killing a gay man and carving swastikas into his body.
Daniel Zamudio's murder set off a national debate about hate crimes in Chile that led Congress to pass an anti-discrimination law.
Judge Juan Carlos Urrutia said Thursday that Patricio Ahumada Garay, Alejandro Angulo Tapia, Raul Lopez Fuentes and Fabian Mora Mora are guilty of a crime of "extreme cruelty" and "total disrespect for human life."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The judge said the attackers also burned Zamudio with cigarettes, beat him with glass bottles and broke his right leg with a heavy stone before they abandoned him in a park in the Chilean capital on Oct. 3, 2012.
The sentence will be read on Oct. 28.