Amber McLaughlin becomes first trans person executed in the U.S.

The first transgender person to be executed in the U.S. died by lethal injection yesterday.

Amber McLaughlin was executed yesterday at 6:51 p.m. at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri.

In 2006, McLaughlin was convicted of first-degree murder in the rape and stabbing death of Beverly Guenther in 2003. The two were in a relationship at the time that ended with Guenther getting a restraining order against McLaughlin.

Police would later find a broken knife handle near Guenther’s car and a trail of blood. Her neighbors said that she…

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