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The first known execution of an openly transgender person for a 2003 murder takes place in Missouri.
Amber McLaughlin, who was convicted of a murder in 2003 and unsuccessfully petitioned the governor for clemency, was executed by lethal injection in Missouri on Tuesday, marking the first openly transgender person to be put to death in the United States.
According to a written statement from the Missouri Department of Corrections, McLaughlin was pronounced deceased at 6:51 pm.
McLaughlin expressed regret in her last statement, which the department of prisons made public. “I am sorry for what I did, I am a loving & caring person.”
