Amber McLaughlin sentenced to death in Missouri
McLaughlin is still convicted as Scott McLaughlin for the 2003 rape and murder of a woman, Beverly Guenther.
McLaughlin has been given a “concrete diagnosis of borderline intellectual disability”.
The Information Center on the Death Penalty – as opposed to capital punishment – has highlighted that McLaughlin is “the first trans person assigned an execution date in the United States”.
to be hanged this tuesday amber mclaughlin and it goes like this first transsexual woman to be victimized Death penalty in the United States, if the governor of the state of Missouri, Republican Mike Parsons, does not stop it.
McLaughlin is still indicted as Scott McLaughlin for the 2003 rape and murder of a woman, Beverly Guenther., but has formally petitioned Governor Parsons for clemency, alleging that he is suffering from brain damage and childhood trauma. If Parsons doesn’t intervene, McLaughlin will be executed by lethal injection, CNN reports.
“Research has recognized andMcLaughlin’s sincere regret And so has every single expert evaluated it in the years following the trial,” the petition to the governor highlighted.
“Borderline Intellectual Ability”
McLaughlin has been given a “concrete diagnosis of borderline intellectual disability”. and “is universally diagnosed with brain damage as well as fetal alcohol syndrome.”
Death Penalty Information Center – the opposite of the death penalty – highlights McLaughlin “She is the first transgender person assigned an execution date in the United States.”
Also, remember that the jury did not unanimously approve the death penalty, a circumstance that is required in most states that execute prisoners. “Missouri law considers a non-unanimous jury to be a deadlocked jury.So a rule was used that allows the judge to impose a sentence on his own,” he explains, recalling that “the judge relied on the circumstances dismissed by the jury to sentence McLaughlin to death.” Did.”
Several political and civil society figures have called for McLaughlin’s execution to be quashed, recalling that he was abandoned by his mother, repeatedly assaulted by his adoptive father and “several suicide attempts”. was the hero of
McLaughlin has not started any legal process to change his name or begin physical transit, so he remains at the Potosi Correctional Center near San Luis, an all-male facility.
