First known execution of a transgender

Amber McLaughlin, the first openly transgender person executed in the United States, was executed Tuesday by lethal injection after being convicted of a 2003 murder. “McLaughlin was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m.,” said a Missouri Department of Corrections statement. It was not clear whether McLaughlin had a final statement. The execution of McLaughlin – the first in the United States this year – is unusual: Women are already rarely executed in the United States. Prior …

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