US First openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. asks for mercy - You'll never guess the crime

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Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, 49, asked Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to spare her this week. McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year-old Beverly Guenther in 2003.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri’s governor for mercy, citing mental health issues.

Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her.

McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year-old Beverly Guenther on Nov. 20, 2003. Guenther was raped and stabbed to death in St. Louis County.

There is no known case of an openly transgender inmate being executed in the U.S. before, according to the anti-execution Death Penalty Information Center.

“It’s wrong when anyone’s executed regardless, but I hope that this is a first that doesn’t occur,” federal public defender Larry Komp said. “Amber has shown great courage in embracing who she is as a transgender woman in spite of the potential for people reacting with hate, so I admire her display of courage.”

McLaughlin’s lawyers cited her traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard, in the clemency petition. A foster parent rubbed feces in her face when she was a toddler and her adoptive father tased her, according to the letter to Parson. She tried to kill herself multiple times, both as a child and as an adult.

Parson spokeswoman Kelli Jones said the Governor’s Office is reviewing her request for mercy.

“These are not decisions that the Governor takes lightly,” Jones said in an email.

Komp said McLaughlin’s lawyers are scheduled to meet with Parson on Tuesday.

A judge sentenced McLaughlin to death after a jury was unable to decide on death or life in prison without parole.

A federal judge in St. Louis ordered a new sentencing hearing in 2016, citing concerns about the effectiveness of McLaughlin’s trial lawyers and faulty jury instructions. But in 2021, a federal appeals court panel reinstated the death penalty.

McLaughlin’s lawyers also listed the jury’s indecision and McLaughlin’s remorse as reasons Parson should spare her life.

Missouri has only executed one woman before, state Corrections Department spokeswoman Karen Pojmann said in an email.

McLaughlin’s lawyers said she previously was rooming with another transgender woman but now is living in isolation leading up to her scheduled execution date.

Pojmann said 9% of Missouri’s prison population is female, and all capital punishment inmates are imprisoned at Potosi Correctional Center.

“It is extremely unusual for a woman to commit a capital offense, such as a brutal murder, and even more unusual for a woman to, as was the case with McLaughlin, rape and murder a woman,” Pojmann said.
Missouri executed two men this year. Kevin Johnson, a 37 year old who was convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother, was put to death last month. Carmen Deck died by injection in May for killing James and Zelma Long during a robbery at their home in De Soto, Missouri, in 1996.
 
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People are really assmad about this one.
 
Kudos to Matt Walsh for this tweet, let's trigger them more with singing that classic from the Wizard of Oz:"Ding-dong the witch is dead".

Btw, the guys of American Thinker posted that article in the aftermath of Scott McLaughlin execution.

January 10, 2023

Feminists pleaded for leniency for man who killed ex-girlfriend​

By Eric Utter


Scott McLaughlin said, "I'm f------ killing that b----." After doing just that, he came back covered in Beverly Guenther's blood. When he led the police to his ex-girlfriend's body, they found her naked from the chest down, with her bra stained red with her own blood. McLaughlin admitted to stabbing Guenther. Over and over again. The subsequent autopsy found evidence that he may also have strangled and raped her.
McLaughlin had repeatedly assaulted Guenther when they were dating. He later stalked her, broke into her home, and threatened her. She obtained an order of protection against him. A police officer walked her from her job to her car for a week.
Scott Mclaughlin had previously served time for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
And because he eventually claimed to be a woman, feminists pleaded with authorities to spare his her his life.
You see, while in prison, Scott "became" Amber, hair held back in ringlets, rose-colored lipstick gracing "her" lips. Scott was granted a genuine, official, taxpayer-funded "gender transition" three years ago.
So-called feminists took to social media and posted selfies while wearing pink nail polish to protest McLaughlin's execution. Some gathered in the rain outside of his prison, waving pink signs stating "#ClemencyforAmber." Apparently, McLaughlin had urged people "to wear pink in solidarity" with him. So females actually made sad faces and held pink fingernails up to the camera, demanding that Scott Amber be spared the death penalty. They formed a circle and held up candles. In defense of a man who stalked, strangled, raped, and killed a woman — and sexually assaulted a young girl. Feminists, indeed.
But that's not all. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), of "Squad" infamy, co-signed a letter urging Missouri's governor to spare McLaughlin's life because, while he may have beaten, raped, and stabbed a woman to death (and also sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl), "she [sic] was also silently struggling with her [sic] identity, grappling with what we now understand is gender dysphoria." Yes, naturally, when one wants to be a member of the opposite sex, one assaults and murders other members of that sex. A rite of passage, so to speak.
 
Kudos to Matt Walsh for this tweet, let's trigger them more with singing that classic from the Wizard of Oz:"Ding-dong the witch is dead".

Btw, the guys of American Thinker posted that article in the aftermath of Scott McLaughlin execution.
I can't understand these mindsets, how can you be a woman and just despise other women to the point you'll support a rapist and murderer?
 
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