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Amber McLaughlin
The first transgender woman that was executed in the United States · United States · On the map · Lived 1973 to 2023 · aged 49
Amber McLaughlin was an American criminal executed in Missouri 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.
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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.