Yes, hate crimes. It's what you get charged with when you kill/hurt someone who belongs to a certain minority group, usually racial.

I think it's stupid.

Usually when people murder other people they hate something about them.
It may be their attitude, their actions, their race, their height, the fact that they are fat, the fact that they drive PT cruiser, the fact that they are Ravens fans... What's more, we can easily group them all into groups. Bald people. Fat people. And so on. Nearly every crime is a 'hate crime' then.

Yet we only ever hear this category apply very selectively to racial and religious minorities. I think it's best to drop the thing altogether, and judge the crime solely based on severity/brutality and other relevant circumstances (self-defense, etc).