Jimmie "Jay" Lee was well known in the college town of Oxford for his drag performances.
Martasia Richmond and Shawmaynè Giselle Marie McClam are the latest casualties of this epidemic of violence.
More than 100 community members came out for a vigil Friday to honor the 24-year-old's life.
While in the Mississippi state legislature, Robert Foster drafted the state’s death penalty law in 2017 that now allows for executions by gas chamber, electrocution, and firing squad.
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee objected to "homosexual materials" because they went against his Christian beliefs, the library system's director says.
Groves is at least the 39th trans, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming person to die by violence in the U.S. this year.
The governor said the law was necessary because the president "encourages transgenderism."
