Your Honour, we know the facts of the case:
 
April 27th, 2011
Two men murdered, beaten, bleeding,
Cause of death: blunt force trauma and stab wounds.
Their car was stolen, their house burned down.
We know what happened.
What we need to uncover is who did it.
 
Who killed Michael Humphrey, 59, and Clayton Capshaw, 61?
 
The answer to that question should be easy.
It was the man with the knife, the one who stole the car.
All evidence points to Oscar Young, and yet.
That doesn’t seem to be quite right, does it?
 
If anything, he wasn’t working alone.
 
No, he was aided by Hate,
abetted by some twisted idea of “Culture”
Years of Unbridled Prejudice fueled his anger
at the mere existence of these two men
who just so happened to be in love.
It was centuries of Heteronormativity and Ostracization
that threw that first torch
that set ablaze the home the two victims had built
brick by brick.
 
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was burnt down in less.
 
Your Honour, it was the years of Unacceptance
that sparked the inferno,
the seventh circle,
hell on earth.
 
So who was it that displaced these two men?
That forced them into the margins, the shadows,
and when that wasn’t enough,
forced them further down until
they were six feet deep,
their bodies charred, charcoaled,
choked.
 
I suppose the answer is quite simple, after all.
Your Honour, it was Society,
with its norms and expectations,
with its conditional acceptance.
Society killed these two men,
and we’d all be fools to assume its killing spree is over.