Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbing
by Edward Helmore and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#67E1T)
Two members of Congress campaigned for Amber McLaughlin's sentence to be commuted over alleged shortcomings in trial
A Missouri inmate has been put to death for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the US.
Amber McLaughlin was put to death on Tuesday night, hours after the Republican governor of Missouri, Mike Parson, declined a clemency request. McLaughlin was convicted in 2006 of killing a former girlfriend in suburban St Louis in 2003.
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