Missouri Scheduled To Execute Openly Transgender Person; First In US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : If carried out, McLaughlin would be only the 18th woman executed in the U.S. since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty after a brief suspension, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
41% : McLaughlin, 49, and her attorneys had petitioned the governor to spare her the death penalty.
41% : Missouri state law permits a judge to impose the death penalty of a jury's decision is not unanimous.
33% : "Ms. McLaughlin's cruel execution would mark the state's first use of the death penalty on a woman since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and even worse it would not solve any of the systemic problems facing Missourians and people all across America, including anti-LGBTQ+ hate and violence, and cycles of violence that target and harm women," the letter reads.

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