He will be executed this Tuesday Amber McLaughlin and so it happens first transgender woman to suffer death penalty in the United States, Unless Republican Mike Parsons, the governor of the state of Missouri, prevents it.
McLaughlin was still convicted as Scott McLaughlin. breach and the 2003 murder of a woman named Beverly Guenther, however, he formally petitioned Governor Parsons for amnesty, claiming he suffered brain damage and childhood trauma. If Parsons does not intervene McLaughlin will be executed by lethal injection. reports CNN.
“Research has agreed McLaughlin’s Heartfelt Regret And every single one of the experts who evaluated it in the years since the trial did the same.”
McLaughlin was “I was definitively diagnosed with borderline intellectual disability“and he died “universally diagnosed with brain injury and fetal alcohol syndrome”.
The Death Penalty Information Center—against the death penalty—McLaughlin’s “He is the first trans person to be given a date of execution. United States of America“.
No consensus among the jury
Also remember that the jury did not unanimously approve the death penalty, required in the vast majority of states that execute prisoners. They point out that “Missouri law considers a non-unanimous jury to be a deadlocked jury, so a rule was used that allows a judge to impose a sentence on his own,” while they remind the judge that “aggravations are based on circumstances he has denied.” The jury will sentence McLaughlin to death”.
Numerous political figures and civil society have called for McLaughlin’s execution to be overturned. abandoned by her mother, repeatedly attacked by her stepfather, and the protagonist of “numerous suicide attempts”.
McLaughlin did not start no legal action to change your name or start a physical transitionso he stays at the Potosi Correctional Center near San Luis, a male-only centre.