DNC Included ‘Criminal Justice Reform Advocate’ Who Was Convicted For Kidnapping And Murder

Donna Hylton, a convicted murderer involved in kidnapping a man and torturing him, was among those featured on night one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

DNC’s opening night on Monday began with a video showing various people reciting the preamble to the Constitution. Hylton was featured in this video and billed as a “criminal justice reform advocate.”

In 1985, Hylton was convicted of murder in the second degree and two counts of kidnapping in the first degree, spending 27 years in jail before being paroled in 2012. Hylton, along with six other people, played a role in kidnapping, torturing and murdering 62-year-old New York businessman Thomas Vigliarolo, according to the charges.

Hylton was also included in a list put together by the DNC of “some of America’s most impactful community leaders.” The DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller.

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Vigliarolo was held for ransom, forcibly sodomized with a three-foot metal pole and murdered, according to a 1995 Psychology Today article. Vigliarolo was held for about 15 days before dying, Fox News reported. The group “starved, beat, sexually assaulted and raped him” during that time period, according to Fox News.

They also “squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him,” New York City Detective William Spurling told Psychology Today.

He was stuffed in a trunk and left to rot after being murdered, the...

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