In 2003, the first transgender person was executed for murdering a girlfriend.

Missouri hAmber McLaughlin, 49 for the 2003 murder of her ex girlfriend, was sentenced to death. first time in the U.S. An openly transgender Execution of the person.

According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, McLaughlin was killed by lethal injection on Tuesday at 6:51 PM. “I am sorry for what I did,” McLaughlin’s final statement was released by corrections. “I am a loving & caring person.”

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McLaughlin and her lawyers petitioned Republican Gov. Mike Parson McLaughlin asked for clemency and requested that her death sentence be commuted. The clemency request focused on several issues, including McLaughlin’s traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard in her trial. She is said to be depressed and has attempted suicide several times.

The petition also included reports citing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a condition that causes anguish and other symptoms as a result of a disparity between a person’s gender identity and their assigned sex at birth.

Parson’s office however, denied Parson’s request for clemency. saying Beverly Guenther, the victim’s family, gave a statement stating that they were sorry for her loss. “deserve peace.”

According to the Anti-Execution Death Penalty Information Center there was never an openly transgender case in which an American inmate was executed.

McLaughlin had been in a relationship before he was sent to prison. According to court records, McLaughlin would sometimes hide inside the building where Guenther, 45, worked in suburban St. Louis. Guenther received a restraining ordeal and was sometimes escorted by police to her car.

Guenther’s neighbors called police the night of Nov. 20, 2003, when she failed to return home. Officers reached the office building and found Guenther with a broken knife handle near her vehicle, as well as a trail of blood. McLaughlin subsequently led police to the location near the Mississippi River. St. LouisThere was a graveyard where the body was found.

McLaughlin was found guilty of first-degree murder murder In 2006. McLaughlin was sentenced to death by a judge after the jury failed to reach agreement on his sentence. A 2016 court ordered a new hearing on McLaughlin’s sentencing, but a federal appeals panel reinstated the death penalty for McLaughlin in 2021.

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Nationally, 18 people were executed, including two from Missouri, in 2022. Kevin JohnsonFor the ambush murder of a Kirkwood police officer, Missouri, Officer, he was sentenced to death on Nov. 29. Carmen Deck In May, he was executed for murdering Zelma and James Long at their De Soto home in Missouri.

Another Missouri inmate Leonard TaylorHe was convicted of killing his girlfriend and three of her young children.