This guy is using “gay panic defense” and it’s still legal in 42 states.

James Dixon speaks to VICE News' Isobel Yeung at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York, where he's serving time for killing Islan Nettles in 2013. (Photo: Michael Lopez/VICE News)

Alani Houston still lives three blocks away from where it happened, just after midnight on August 17, 2013 — and the memory sometimes resurfaces.

Islan Nettles was walking home with a friend when she ran into James Dixon and a group of six young men…