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This photo provided by the Federal Public Defender Office shows death row inmate Amber McLaughlin. Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, McLaughlin was put to death Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. (Jeremy S. Weis/Federal Public Defender Office via AP, File)

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Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbing
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,01/02/23-11:01PM , 191 Reads
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Tuesday for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S.
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This photo provided by the Federal Public Defender Office shows death row inmate Amber McLaughlin. Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, McLaughlin will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday, Jan 3, 2022, for stabbing to death a former girlfriend, Beverly Guenther, in 2003. (Jeremy S. Weis/Federal Public Defender Office via AP, File)

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Transgender woman's scheduled execution would be US first
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,01/02/23-9:04AM , 59 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
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Lamar Johnson takes a seat in court at the start of his wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)

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Missouri man seeks exoneration in murder; 2 others confessed
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,12/12/22-12:00AM , 471 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor's office told a judge Monday.
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A school bus arrives at Jana Elementary School on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022 in Florissant, Mo. Radioactive samples were found at the Hazelwood School District school, according to a recently released report. Nearby Coldwater Creek, which flooded in August, was contaminated by waste from nuclear bombs manufactured during World War II. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

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Missouri school to close after radioactive waste report
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Tue,10/18/22-1:30PM , 95 Reads
FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri school board decided Tuesday to shut down a grade school that sits near a contaminated creek after a study funded by law firms involved in a class-action lawsuit found high levels of radioactive material inside the school.
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