Photo: Courtesy the Matthew Shepard Foundation This month marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die, bound to a fence ...

This stamp will be a wonderful way to keep his legacy alive." Shepard was brutally attacked on the night of October 6, 1998, tied to a fence outside of Laramie, Wyoming, and left to die. Found by ...

Matthew Shepard, on Oct. 6, 1998, had been savagely beaten with the butt of a pistol outside Laramie, Wyoming, while strapped to a fence. Five days later, he died in a hospital bed in Fort Collins, ...