• Missouri on Tuesday became the first state to execute an openly transgender person, putting convicted murderer Amber McLaughlin to death, according to multiple reports.
• McLaughlin was found guilty in 2006 of murdering ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther three years earlier after she got a restraining order against McLaughlin, The Associated Press reported.
• A jury also convicted McLaughlin of forcible rape and armed criminal action, and the Death Penalty Information Center said McLaughlin would be the first openly transgender person executed nationwide.
• McLaughlin died by lethal injection, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

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