Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.focuses on several issues, including McLaughlin's traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard in her trial.
There is no known case of an openly transgender inmate being executed in the U.S. before, according to the anti-execution Death Penalty Information Center. A friend in prison says she saw McLaughlin's personality blossom during her gender transition. McLaughlin was convicted of first-degree murder in 2006. A judge sentenced McLaughlin to death after a jury deadlocked on the sentence. A court in 2016 ordered a new sentencing hearing, but a federal appeals court panel reinstated the death penalty in 2021.
Though imprisoned together for around a decade, Hicklin said McLaughlin was so shy they rarely interacted. But as McLaughlin began transitioning about three years ago, she turned to Hicklin for guidance on issues such as mental health counseling and getting help to ensure her safety inside a male-dominated maximum-security prison.
I just need CBS to be more reputable
So does mean laws for you, not for me!
Being the first isn't always a good thing.
*Man
Bye bye trash
What a horrible headline, wtf writes these? They will be executed for being transgender?
The media sucks so bad.
Good. JUSTICE for Beverly Guenther will be served.
So? What? PINK casket?
But wait! After he transmogrified into a “woman” shouldn’t the crimes be expunged? Isn’t it like the reset button on a gaming system? WTF?!
Maga4Justice He committed murder. Being a transgender has nothing to do with it. More media gaslighting.
He’s a man who murdered his girlfriend
Who cares? He murdered his girlfriend and dumped her body in a river like she was garbage. Execute.
Equality for the win
Maga4Justice 🤡
Good!
What does that have to do with anything?
2. violating the constitution the way they are doing in San Francisco, creates a serious problem for legal Americans, mainly in jobs and housing, {green card people they put in the police system have attack black Americans, to get them out the way, mainly for those jobs
A murderer.. A man... nothing to do with being trans.
Is this really news?
Goodbye! Once you become a killer you cease to be a human being.
But I'm sure she isn't being executed because of being transgender!
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