A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said. According to AFP, Amber McLaughlin, 49, was pronounced dead shortly before 7pm local time at the Diagnostic and Correctional Centre in the town of Bonne Terre, Missouri, according to a statement from the state prison department. Local news station reported that McLaughlin died by lethal injection.
A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said.
Guenther was raped and stabbed to death with a kitchen knife. Her body was dumped near the Mississippi river. Citing the fact that a jury did not sentence McLaughlin to death, her lawyers asked Governor Mike Parson to commute her sentence to life in prison. Her cause had drawn support from high-profile people including two Missouri members of the US House of Representatives, Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver.
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