Philippines president pardons U.S. Marine convicted of killing transgender woman

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2 min read LGBT+ rights groups are crying foul as the President of the Philippines officially pardoned a U.S. Marine who was convicted of killing a transgender woman although his reduced sentence had already been served.

A US Marine has been pardoned by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for the murder of a transgender Filipino woman, Jennifer Laude in 2014. At the time, Laude’s murder sparked widespread condemnation and anger in the former American colony. On the evening of October 11, 2014 after meeting in the Ambyanz disco bar in Olongapo the pair allegedly went back to a nearby motel, where staff later found Laude’s body, her neck blackened by strangulation marks and with her head in a toilet bowl.Lance