Amber McLaughlin, first transgender person executed in US

Amber McLaughlin, a female inmate in the state of Missouri on Tuesday became the first openly transgender woman to be executed in the United States.

McLaughlin was executed with lethal injection following rejection of request for clemency earlier Tuesday by Gov. Mike Parson.

She was injected with fatal dose of pentobarbital and pronounced dead a few minutes later.

Amber McLaughlin was convicted of killing her 45-year-old former girlfriend, Beverly Guenther on Nov. 20, 2003.

Guenther was raped and stabbed to death in St. Louis County.

McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the murder in 2006 after a jury was deadlocked on her sentence.

There are no known previous cases in which an openly transgender person was executed, according to the anti-execution Death Penalty Information Center.
McLaughlin reportedly killed Guenther in 2003.