Chilean court sentences 4 in murder of gay man that prompted Chile to adopt hate crime law
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Chilean judges have sentenced a man to life in prison for the beating death of a gay man whose body was carved with swastikas.
The killing of Daniel Zamudio last year prompted Chile's Congress to pass an anti-discrimination law.
The three-judge panel imposed a life sentence on Patricio Ahumada Garay. It sentenced two others to 15 terms, and another was sentenced to seven years.
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Zamudio's family and friends clapped as the sentences were read out.
The attackers burned Zamudio with cigarettes, beat him with glass bottles and broke his right leg with a heavy stone before they abandoned him to die in a park on March 3, 2012.