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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Josh Marcus

Amber McLaughlin: Missouri carries out first execution of openly transgender inmate for 2003 murder

(Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)

The state of Missouri executed Amber McLaughlin on Tuesday evening, marking the first time a US state has carried out the death penalty against an openly transgender individual.

McLaughlin died just before 7pm local time at a state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, after being given lethal injection drugs, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

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