First openly transgender person executed in US for 2003 murder of ex-girlfriend

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Missouri has executed Amber McLaughlin, 49, for the murder of her ex-girlfriend in 2003, making it the first time in the U.S. that an openly transgender person has been executed.

McLaughlin died from lethal injection at 6:51 p.m. Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Corrections said. “I am sorry for what I did,” wrote McLaughlin in her final statement, which was released by the department of corrections. “I am a loving & caring person.”McLaughlin and her attorneys petitioned Republican Gov. Mike Parson for clemency, asking him to commute her death sentence.

However, Parson's office denied the request for clemency, saying in a statement that the family and loved ones of her victim, Beverly Guenther, “deserve peace.” Before transitioning in prison, McLaughlin was in a relationship with Guenther. McLaughlin would show up at the suburban St. Louis office where the 45-year-old Guenther worked, sometimes hiding inside the building, according to court records. Guenther obtained a restraining order, and police officers occasionally escorted her to her car after work.

 

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Excellent! Now we are getting somewhere!

A murder executed 👍.

Has there ever been a non-openly transgender person?

He was a fake woman. That's what transgender means - fake. And now, he is a real corpse.

Equal justice

CORRECTION: Rape and murder of HIS ex-girlfriend. Even if you want to cater to denial of mental illness, at least acknowledge that this person was a male when he raped and murdered his girlfriend. He may be trying to deny biology now but that does not change who he was then.

How exactly is a person non-openly transgender?

She ? 😂 He is more masculine than Undertaker

I thought LGBT just wanted equal treatment. Isn’t this it? Why is his gender identity even an issue here? A jury identified him as a brutal stalker and murderer. Justice was served. Interesting that his attorney used mental illness and gender dysphoria as basis for clemency

So it's historic? Is that the point? 🙄

Misleading. Wasn't openly transgender when the murder was committed. It's almost as if becoming trans would save him

His cell mate turned him into her. 😂😂😂

Equality!

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