‘You’re a killing machine’: Judge has no mercy on man convicted of hate-fueled murder of victim who ‘checked all the boxes’

A Wisconsin man who strangled his cellmate asked a judge to consider supervised release after he was convicted of a hate crime — but the judge was not open to his request.

Jackson Vogel, 25, had already been serving a 20-year prison sentence at Green Bay Correctional Institution for the attempted murder of his mother, a crime he committed when he was 16. Eight years after the beginning of his incarceration, he was assigned a cellmate, 19-year-old Micah Laureano. Laureano had been sentenced to three years for assault and vehicle theft.

According to court records obtained by the Green Bay Press Gazette, Vogel killed Laureano within hours of his arrival…

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