A woman sentenced to be executed is exceedingly unusual, if only because women rarely commit crimes so brutal and heinous as to warrant execution in a society that rarely applies it:

Missouri has only executed one woman before, state Corrections Department spokeswoman Karen Pojmann said. …

‘It is extremely unusual for a woman to commit a capital offense, such as a brutal murder, and even more unusual for a women to, as was the case with McLaughlin, rape and murder a woman,’ Pojmann said.

Yet Amber McLaughlin was convicted of terrorizing, raping, murdering, and dumping by the Mississippi 45-year-old Beverly Guenther in 2003.

How is such a crime even possible? Here’s how: Amber McLaughlin was as man named Scott McLaughlin when he killed his ex-girlfriend. He played the transsexual card and made an appeal for sympathy in an attempt to evade the death penalty.

If this ploy had succeeded, it would have been a travesty of justice. It did not succeed; McLaughlin was executed Tuesday.

What we did see was a travesty of journalism, with even reputedly right-wing news sources like the Daily Mail referring to McLaughlin as a woman and using female pronouns. The purpose of the news media is to report facts, not to obscure them so as to comply with anti-reality LGBT ideology.

On a tip from Lyle.

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