Hate crime means it is aggravated.

From a review in the Guardian of Till:

"Till-Mobley died in 2003, never having found justice, although last March, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime."

Aggravated crime means it gets a higher tariff, because its a more threatening crime.
Lets say you picked a fight with a guy who drew a gun and shot you. He would still get prosecuted for murder.

But now lets say you didn't provoke a response. you were simply in the wrong place in the wrong time in the wrong tone body. You did nothing except exist.

A guy who commits a hate crime? He was just going to go do it randomly to some person, at literally any time, walking around primed to kill. Just needed an excuse.

Most murderers?

Well, the US tracks these statistics so - if I ever get straw manned - I have them got my fingertips. So I can tell you that the risk of recidivism - committing the same crime you have been prosecuted for - is 2% for murder.

What do you think it is for hate crime?

Do you think suddenly 98% of people think 'actually my hate crime was wrong'? And thus do you think society wants those people walking around, chatting away, just waiting for a random stranger who doesn't look like them to cross them.

No. Society does not want that. And so we want their tariffs increased so we can lock them up forever and throw away the key. So they can't kill random people randomly for the crime of being born.