Video: The history of capital punishment in Missouri
The first recorded use of the death penalty in Missouri was in 1810.
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The Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks death penalty numbers, said McLaughlin would be the first transgender person to be executed.
Columnist Bill McClellan writes:Â As Missouri prepares to ring in the new year with another execution, it is worth considering that we seldom kill the people we convicted.
Amber McLaughlin, a transgender woman, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Jan. 3.
