Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Jessica hicklin | Mind Blowing Facts

She Was Sentenced to Life Without Parole. Teaching STEM Gave Her Purpose

Jessica Hicklin is using edtech to help make in-prison education more accessible. It’s a mission inspired by her time incarcerated.

Tech&Learning · Nov 21, 2023

Kansas attorney general sues to block trans Kansans from changing gender on driver’s licenses

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Friday to block Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration from allowing transgender Kansans to continue to change their gender marker on driver’s licenses after a new law took effect last week.

Tribune News Service · Jul 7, 2023

Amber McLaughlin becomes first transgender woman to be executed in US after 2003 murder conviction

The 49-year-old was on death row in a prison in Missouri for killing a former girlfriend in 2003 in St Louis

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Amber McLaughlin execution: First transgender woman put to death in the US

Amber McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther in St Louis, Missouri. She transitioned just three years ago

Daily Mirror · Jan 4, 2023

Transgender Missouri inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday

Nearly 1,600 death row inmates have been put to death in the U.S. since 1977, but an execution scheduled for Tuesday in Missouri would be the first involving a transgender woman

The Independent UK · Jan 3, 2023

Missouri set for first execution of transgender person in the US

Amber McLaughlin faces death by lethal injection on Tuesday, after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2006.

Al Jazeera · Jan 2, 2023

US may execute its first openly transgender woman

Unless Missouri Gov Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2023

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

She spent 26 years in prison, where she transitioned. Now she is a free woman

Jessica Hicklin spent most of her life at a maximum security men’s prison for a murder she committed as a teen. Now 42, she is out on parole

The Guardian - US · Mar 7, 2022

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.