Mercy for justice: Why Missouri should stop nation's first execution of transgender woman

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55% : Opinions in your inbox: Get exclusive access to our columnists and the best of our columns every dayMcLaughlin is not the only transgendered woman now awaiting execution in this country.
53% : So she awaits execution as a woman.
42% : Laughlin committed a brutal crime, but like others awaiting execution, what brought her to that moment was a life marked from her earliest years by brain damage, physical and psychological abuse and mental illness.
39% : According to the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty organization that gathers data on capital punishment, "Women are rarely sentenced to death in the United States and executions are even rarer."

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