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Amber McLaughlin (January 13, 1973 – January 3, 2023) was an American criminal executed in
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for the 2003 rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther. At the time of the crime, McLaughlin was living as male; she transitioned from male to female while incarcerated. McLaughlin became the first openly transgender person to be executed in the United States. Her legal name remained her birth name, Scott A. McLaughlin, and she was identified as such in her death warrant and in prison records. McLaughlin was a registered sex offender because of a 1992 conviction for sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl. At McLaughlin's 2006 trial, the jury was deadlocked on the issue of the death penalty. In most U.S. states, this would result in a sentence of life imprisonment. However, Missouri is one of only two states (the other being
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) in which a judge has the discretion to sentence a defendant to death if the jury is deadlocked on the issue of capital punishment. In August 2021, McLaughlin's sentence was reinstated by the
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. On January 3, 2023, McLaughlin was executed by the state.


See also

* Isla Bryson case *
Capital punishment in Missouri Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Missouri. On a per capita basis, it ranks third in executions, behind Oklahoma and Texas. History Capital punishment in Missouri was first used in 1810 in the form of hanging. From 1810 ...
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List of people executed in Missouri This is a list of people executed in Missouri following the 1976 Supreme Court decision in ''Gregg v. Georgia'' that allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. List of people executed in Missouri since 1976 Since 1 ...
* List of people executed in the United States in 2023 *
List of women executed in the United States since 1976 Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in ''Gregg v. Georgia'', 18 women have been executed in the United States. Women represent about 1.10 percent of the 1,630 executions performed i ...


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