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INSANE: Missouri set to execute first transgender person in the us | Rare Historical Photos

Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin have petitioned Missouri Governor Mike Parson for clemency, ahead of her scheduled execution on Tuesday, January 3 [File: Jeremy S Weis for the Federal Public Defender Office/AP Photo]

Unless she is granted clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman to be executed in the United States. She is scheduled to die by injection in the Midwestern state of Missouri on Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

McLaughlin’s lawyer, Larry Komp, said there are no court appeals pending.

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