US may execute its first openly transgender woman

US carries out first execution of transgender person

WASHINGTON: A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late on Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said. Amber McLaughlin, 49, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 pm local time at the Diagnostic and Correctional Center in the town of Bonne Terre, Missouri, according to a statement from the state prison department. Local news station Fox2now reported that McLaughlin died by lethal injection. McLaughl…

First trans person in the United States executed with lethal injection

She was found guilty of killing an ex-girlfriend in 2003 in a suburb of the city of St. Louis, Missouri.

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A judge had sentenced McLaughlin to death after a jury was unable to decide on death or life in prison without parole.

United States: For the first time a transgender woman has been executed

Sentenced to death for the murder of her former partner before her transition, Amber Laughlin was executed this Tuesday in the state of Missouri and thus became the first transgender person to be executed in the United States.

First transgender inmate executed in the US

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

The United States executed a murderer who had become a transgender person in prison

Amber McLaughlin, convicted of the rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther in 2003, received the death penalty with a lethal injection in Missouri