{"id":1794204,"date":"2023-01-03T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794204"},"modified":"2023-01-03T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T22:36:36","slug":"media-creates-trans-martyr-out-of-death-row-inmate-who-raped-and-murdered-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-creates-trans-martyr-out-of-death-row-inmate-who-raped-and-murdered-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Makes Death Row Inmate Who Murdered and Raped Girlfriend a Trans Martyr"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-creates-trans-martyr-out-of-death-row-inmate-who-raped-and-murdered-girlfriend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/article_CRC-67.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>To Tell the Truth\u00a0is Human Events News\u2019 press analysis series. These stories will be about \u201cnews\u201d The New York Times and The Washington Post reported the story. These established mainstream platforms still influence the majority American citizens and their political views, despite 24-hour cable broadcasts and untold numbers of internet sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The \u201cnews\u201d These press outlets are better regarded than the ones that generate them. \u201copinion\u201d The content was designed to discourage critical thinking and skepticism on the part of the audience.\u00a0To Tell the Truth\u00a0will be Human Events News\u2019 periodic effort to help address this bias and restore the skepticism necessary on the part of all Americans to maintain a free society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/legal-proceedings-st-louis-missouri-crime-mississippi-river-c2d0f65a1d20393998dc2b0ada2d0aeb\"><i>Associated Press<\/i><\/a> An article this week lamented the fact that \u201cUnless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missouri-b88f2b102ac82e8c44190e20631749ab\">grants clemency<\/a>, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article was republished by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/us-may-execute-its-first-openly-transgender-woman\/2023\/01\/02\/e0cc8f04-8aae-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/us-execute-openly-transgender-woman-96079663\">ABC News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/missouri-execution-amber-mclaughlin-first-openly-transgender-woman-death-row\/\">CBS News<\/a><\/em>This and many other words refer to Scott McLaughlin&#8217;s 2006 conviction for stalking, sexual assault, and the murder of Beverly Guenther.<\/p>\n<p>Mclaughlin was actually the one who started it all. \u201ctransitioning\u201d Three years ago, according the <i>AP<\/i> report\u2013 while incarcerated, and with the help of another transgender inmate.<\/p>\n<p>The piece begins with an appeal to McLaughlin\u2019s plea for clemency rather than McLaughlin\u2019s undisputed heinous crime.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin will die Tuesday by an injection. Despite the media\u2019s angling, Gov. Parson insists it will happen as planned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcLaughlin\u2019s culpability in Ms. Guenther\u2019s murder has never been in question,\u201d Parson <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.mo.gov\/press-releases\/archive\/state-carry-out-sentence-scott-mclaughlin\">said<\/a> Make a statement. \u201cMcLaughlin\u2019s conviction and sentence remains after multiple, thorough examinations of Missouri law. McLaughlin stalked, raped, and murdered Ms. Guenther. McLaughlin is a violent criminal. Ms. Guenther\u2019s family and loved ones deserve peace. The State of Missouri will carry out McLaughlin\u2019s sentence according to the Court\u2019s order and deliver justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcLaughlin waited outside Beverly Guenther\u2019s workplace, where McLaughlin brutally raped and violently stabbed her as she walked to her vehicle to go home,\u201d the Governor\u2019s office explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcLaughlin terrorized Ms. Guenther for months prior, to the point where Ms. Guenther had an order of protection against McLaughlin after McLaughlin broke into her home. McLaughlin\u2019s culpability in Ms. Guenther\u2019s murder has never been in question. Missouri courts have found no issue in the application of Missouri law to McLaughlin, and federal appellate courts have maintained as much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many headlines from America\u2019s trusted news sources read as if perhaps McLaughlin is being put to death <i>For<\/i> being transgender. [<i>CNN<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/03\/us\/amber-mclaughlin-missouri-execution\/index.html\">Missouri is scheduled to carry out first US execution of an openly transgender person today<\/a>]\n<p>And quite nearly <i>All<\/i> McLaughlin is one of the most prominent. \u201ctransgender woman\u201d Who unsuccessfully tried to get clemency. <i>CNN\u2019s<\/i> report is framed around McLaughlin\u2019s lawyer\u2019s claims that he \u201chas shown genuine remorse and has struggled with an intellectual disability, mental health issues, and a history of childhood trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same lawyers also believe that \u201cMs. McLaughlin\u2019s\u201d Execution would have to be extremely cruel, as it would be \u201cthe first use of the death penalty on a <b>woman<\/b> since the US supreme court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To Tell The Truth: Our current reality is almost absurd. A man can stalk, murder, and rape a woman, then be sentenced to death. He is also portrayed as a martyr in support of women&#8217;s rights, because he began wearing lipstick while waiting for his execution.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Celine Ryan Ciccio is an American journalist, specializing in coverage of political bias in\u00a0media,\u00a0business,\u00a0tech,\u00a0higher education, and the\u00a0intersections\u00a0thereof. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/celinerciccio\">@CelineRCiccio<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Tell the Truth\u00a0is Human Events News\u2019 press analysis series. These stories will be about \u201cnews\u201d The New York Times and The Washington Post reported the story. These established mainstream platforms still influence the majority American citizens and their political views, despite 24-hour cable broadcasts and untold numbers of internet sources. 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