A transgender woman was executed Tuesday night for the 2003 murder of her partner in a Missouri suburb.
This is the first execution of a transgender person in the United States. The state prison department announced that the execution of Amber McLaughlin took place at 7:00 p.m. (local time) at the Bonne Terre Diagnostic and Correctional Center.
Local news network Fox2now reported that the sentence was carried out by lethal injection.
McLaughlin had harassed her to the point that the woman, named Beverly Guenther, had obtained a restraining order.
First transgender person to be executed in the United States
On the day of the crime, McLaughlin waited for her outside work with a kitchen knife. Guenther was raped and stabbed, and her body was dumped in the Mississippi River.
In 2006, a jury found her guilty of the murder, but could not agree on the sentence. The trial judge intervened and imposed the death penalty, an intervention permitted in the states of Missouri and Indiana.
“The death penalty considered here does not reflect the conscience of the community but rather that of a single judge,” they argued in their clemency petition, which also noted McLaughlin’s difficult childhood and psychiatric disorders.
News reports say McLaughlin began her gender transition in recent years but remained incarcerated on the men’s section of death row in Missouri. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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