According to the Anti-Execution Death Penalty Information Center, there is no known case of an openly transgender inmate being executed in the U.S. before.
A witness identification expert testified to Boyer in spring 2022 that the witness' accounts were unreliable due to poor lighting the night of the shooting.
As of New Year's Eve afternoon, the City of St. Louis had 198 homicides. That's nearly the same as in 2021 when 200 people lost their lives to gun violence.
The state's attorney and sheriff argued they would "suffer an irreparable injury in the event the SAFE-T Act's pretrial release provisions are enforced."