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~ Amber McLaughlin, 03Jan23, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: December 16, 2022, 1:19 pm
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First U.S. Execution of a Transgender Woman Set in Missouri--
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Missouri is set to carry out the nation’s first known execution
of a trans early next month, but the death row prisoner is
asking the state’s governor for clemency saying the jury never
heard about HIS mental health and abusive childhood.
Amber McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on
January 3, 2023, for the 2003 R*P* and stabbing murder of HIS
ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther, who was 45 at the time.
McLaughlin’s execution would be the first known execution of a
transgender woman in the country. It would also be the first
execution of a so-called woman in Missouri since it resumed the
practice in 1976.
McLaughlin and HIS lawyers chose not to call an expert
psychiatric witness or present evidence regarding HIS mental
health at trial.
While there is a chance Gov. Parson will grant clemency, he has
not done so in the five previous executions that have taken
place since he took office in 2018.
A spokesperson for Parson, Kelli Jones, said the governor
seriously considers these decisions and that a process is
underway regarding McLaughlin’s request for clemency and the
scheduled execution.
McLaughlin had been dating Guenther prior to the 2003 murder,
but Guenther had recently broken up with McLaughlin. She told
friends she feared McLaughlin whom she said was stalking and
terrorizing her, and that she had sought a restraining order for
protection. Then presenting as a male, McLaughlin raped and
stabbed Guenther to death on November 20, and later dumped her
body in a parking lot. McLaughlin was convicted and sentenced to
death in 2006. The death sentence was vacated on appeal in 2016,
but was reinstated last year. McLaughlin also appears as a
registered sex offender for a sexual assault against a
14-year-old girl in 1992 when HE was 19.
HE also expressed remorse for murdering Guenther.
“I’m sorry,” HE quietly told the outlet. “I didn't mean for it
to happen.”
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Re: ~ Amber McLaughlin, 03Jan23, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: January 2, 2023, 3:39 pm
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Missouri Is Set to Execute Amber McLaughlin, First Openly
Transgender Death Row Inmate--
Monday, January 2nd, 2023
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) intervenes, Missouri will
begin the new year by conducting the first-ever execution of an
openly transgender person in the United States when it puts
Amber McLaughlin to death on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.
McLaughlin, 49, is a transgender woman who has been held at a
men’s prison in protective custody at Potosi Correctional Center
in Mineral Point, Missouri. He transitioned as an inmate in 2018
after a ruling in a separate case allowed all inmates access to
hormone therapy.
McLaughlin was convicted of the r*p* and stabbing murder of
45-year-old Beverly Guenther in 2003. At the time — and in all
court proceedings until 2018 — McLaughlin went by the name Scott
McLaughlin, the name that appears on court documents. Guenther
was McLaughlin’s former girlfriend.
McLaughlin also argues through counsel that his case was a
procedural anomaly that does not support a death sentence.
Though most death-penalty states require a unanimous jury vote
to impose a death sentence, Missouri allows a judge to
independently impose a death sentence if a jury finds itself
deadlocked on sentencing. McLaughlin’s case ended with a hung
jury on sentencing after counsel introduced some evidence of the
defendant’s extensive childhood trauma.
However, McLaughlin’s lawyers say their client’s lawyer should
have introduced more mitigating evidence during the sentencing
phase, but failed to do so. In 2016, a federal district court
agreed with that assessment and overturned McLaughlin’s death
sentence. Later, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit reversed that ruling and reinstated McLaughlin’s
death sentence. McLaughlin’s appeal was rejected by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
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Re: ~ Amber McLaughlin, 03Jan23, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: January 3, 2023, 7:04 pm
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Missouri executes convicted murderer Amber McLaughlin--
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
BONNE TERRE, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Corrections
carried out its execution of Amber McLaughlin early Tuesday
evening, making him the first openly transgender inmate to be
killed by the state.
The execution was carried out at the Eastern Reception,
Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri.
McLaughlin, 49, died via lethal injection.
McLaughlin was sentenced to death on Nov. 3, 2006, for the
murder of ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther. During the 2005 trial,
prosecutors said McLaughlin, then known as Scott, stalked
Guenter, abducted her as she left her job, and stabbed her to
death.
McLaughlin was convicted of rape and murder in 2005. However,
St. Louis County jurors failed to reach a unanimous consensus on
the death penalty. The presiding judge ultimately made the death
sentence determination.
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