Missouri set to become first state to execute an openly transgender person

Two members of Congress campaigning for Amber McLaughlin’s sentence to be commuted over alleged shortcomings in trial

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.

“We’re just anxiously waiting on a decision,” McLaughlin’s lawyer, Larry Komp, told the Guardian on Monday.