Bob Dylan's 1975 song Hurricane (from the album Desire) might be about a crime, but it's not about a killer. In fact, Hurricane acts as more a protest song, dealing with a false trial and false conviction owing to racism. The song is about Rubin Hurricane Carter, a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder, specifically a triple count. The media began constructing Carter's motives, and that his supposed attack had been racially charged. In the end, Carter was imprisoned for over twenty years before he was released thanks to a petition of unlawful detention due to faulty, limited evidence. Dylan felt this injustice so strongly that he was inspired to write the song, a protest against the criminal justice system's deep-seated racism.