The Guardian heralds another first:
Missouri set to become first state to execute an openly transgender person
Progress! No, wait, that’s not what we mean. What do we mean? Uhh………..
Amber McLaughlin is facing the fate on Tuesday of becoming the first openly transgender person to be executed in the US – unless Missouri’s governor, Mike Parson, grants clemency and puts a stop to the planned lethal injection.
First transgender person but not first man.
Punishment by execution is a bad thing, but it doesn’t become worse because the executed person is a man who claims to be a woman.
… Read the restThere are no further court appeals pending. The clemency request focuses on several issues, including McLaughlin’s severely traumatic childhood and