Barring a last-minute intervention, Amber McLaughlin is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Missouri today. Rather than focusing on the (literally) bloody murder of his former girlfriend in 2003, most of the media coverage of this story you will see today highlights the inmate’s claims to be transgender. This would make him the “first openly transgender woman” to be executed in the country. There are no court appeals pending, so the only way that the execution won’t go forward is if Governor Mike Parson responds positively to a clemency request from McLaughlin’s attorneys. (CBS News)Read More
Will Missouri execute the first “transgender woman” today?
