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Missouri activists seek more wrongful conviction hearings

As racial justice activists in Missouri celebrate the overturned conviction of Lamar Johnson, they’re questioning why other inmates with credible innocence claims aren’t getting the chance to make their cases in court

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Leonard Taylor’s lawyers say Missouri executed him before appeals ended, call for probe

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Leonard Taylor, who was executed Tuesday, are calling for an investigation after they say Missouri put him to death while a final appeal was pending.

Tribune News Service

Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of 2004 murders, despite innocence claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri.

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Raheem Taylor executed for killing girlfriend and her three kids in horror shooting

Raheem Taylor, 58, was convicted of the 2004 killings but has always claimed his innocence with his lawyers claiming there's enough evidence to at least postpone the execution

Daily Mirror

Missouri prisoner Leonard Taylor appeals to the Supreme Court, seeking to halt his execution

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Missouri prisoner Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday amid mounting calls for his innocence claims to be vetted, have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tribune News Service

‘You will not break my spirit’: Leonard Taylor speaks out day before execution in Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor answered the phone exuberantly on Monday from a prison in eastern Missouri.

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Civil rights groups seek halt to Missouri execution

The president of the national NAACP is urging Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for the deaths of his girlfriend and her three children

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'Concerning' law passed which will see homeless charged £630 to sleep in parks

On January 1, Missouri, US, passed a new law that makes it a crime for any homeless person to sleep on a government owned property or face fines and up to 15 days in prison

Daily Mirror

Dad-of-two legally changes gender in bizarre bid to gain custody of daughters from wife

René Salinas Ramos, 47, who lives in Ecuador, says he decided to take the drastic measure because the justice system in the country typically favours the mother in custody battles

Daily Mirror

Alarm as US states pass ‘very concerning’ anti-homeless laws

Homelessness charities say wave of new bills unfairly targets people without housing as social-services funding is cut

The Guardian - US

First transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin executed in the US

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

Irish Mirror

Amber McLaughlin becomes first transgender woman to be executed in US after 2003 murder conviction

The 49-year-old was on death row in a prison in Missouri for killing a former girlfriend in 2003 in St Louis

Evening Standard

Missouri carries out first US execution of a transgender person

Amber McLaughlin, convicted of murder, was executed by lethal injection after being denied clemency.

Al Jazeera

Missouri executes transgender inmate convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend in 2003

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Missouri on Tuesday executed by lethal injection a transgender inmate who stabbed, strangled and raped an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago.

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Amber McLaughlin's Jury Deadlocked—So the Judge Decided She Should Be Executed

Today's scheduled execution is getting attention because she's trans. But the bigger story here is how she was sentenced to die.

AFP

US set for first execution of a transgender person

Washington (AFP) - A transgender woman convicted of murder was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States.

Al Jazeera

Missouri set for first execution of transgender person in the US

Amber McLaughlin faces death by lethal injection on Tuesday, after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2006.

The Independent UK

US may execute its first openly transgender woman

Unless Missouri Gov Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin will become the first openly 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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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last Democrat holding statewide office in Missouri set to depart

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The last Democratic statewide official in Missouri wrapped up her tenure as state auditor this week saying her work helped uncover hundreds of millions of dollars that were mismanaged, wasted or stolen.

Tribune News Service

The race for Missouri governor emerges from shadows. Who are the likely candidates?

The first ballots won’t be cast for 20 months, but the Missouri Republican race for governor is rapidly emerging from the shadows.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Members of Congress urge Missouri Gov. Parson to cancel woman's execution

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — U.S. Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver on Tuesday called on Gov. Mike Parson to stop Missouri's planned execution of Amber McLaughlin, set for Jan. 3.

Tribune News Service

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Pointing to ‘flaw’ in Missouri death penalty, judges ask to stop woman’s execution

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Seven retired Missouri judges have urged Gov. Mike Parson to stop the execution of Amber McLaughlin, arguing that the death penalty was handed down “via a flaw in Missouri’s capital sentencing scheme.”

Tribune News Service

Gov. Parson appoints treasurer, first person of color to hold statewide office in Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday appointed Vivek Malek as the state’s next treasurer to succeed Auditor-elect Scott Fitzpatrick.

Daily Mirror

Transgender woman to be executed despite suffering brain damage as a child

Amber McLaughlin, 49, who was convicted of killing and raping Beverly Guenther on November 20, 2003, in St. Louis County, Missouri, US, has begged to be spared from the death penalty

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