Scheduled for Jan 3 it looks like
Mass.—no death penalty—Robert “Michelle”
Kosilek [wife was 36 when murdered]—wanted state to pay for transgender surgery.
Life sentence.
Wiki:
“Kosilek murdered McCaul in May, 1990. In October 1992, about two and a half years after the murder, Kosilek gave a series of recorded interviews to a reporter.[5] In one of these recordings, Kosilek stated that, on the day of the murder.
” McCaul had returned home to the couple’s condominium in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and discovered Kosilek wearing McCaul’s clothing. The female clothing of Kosilek stirred McCaul with transphobic rage, and an altercation ensued. McCaul threw boiling tea at Kosilek, either at her face or her genitals, and Kosilek knocked McCaul down. McCaul grabbed a butcher’s knife and chased Kosilek into another room, threatening to kill her. Kosilek picked up a piece of wire that had been on a table. Kosilek reported that the next thing she remembered was awakening, days later, in the psychiatric unit of a hospital. In the interview, Kosilek stated that she “probably, because of the trauma of it ... went into a blackout at that moment.” She added, “Apparently, I did take her life. It was probably in self-defense.” McCaul was 36 years old when she died.”