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U.S. Marine Pardoned for Killing Transgender Woman Is Deported From Philippines

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MANILA — A U.S. Marine who received a pardon from President Rodrigo Duterte for the gruesome killing of a transgender woman was deported from the Philippines on Sunday.

Immigration agents escorted Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton to a waiting U.S. military cargo plane from the Philippine military’s headquarters in Manila on Sunday, just days after Mr.

Duterte ordered the soldier released, saying he had been treated unfairly. The Philippine immigration commissioner, Jaime Morente, said on Sunday that Lance Corporal Pemberton was barred from ever returning to the country as a consequence of the deportation order.

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