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Female to be Executed in TX

Cell on 'Death Row' -- Walls Unit Prison in Texas (Getty Images)
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Updated: 1/28 6:32 pm

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas woman convicted of the grisly slaying and robbery of a 71-year-old neighbor is set to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2010.


Kimberly McCarthy faces lethal injection Tuesday evening in Huntsville. She'd also be the first woman put to death in Texas in more than eight years.


A Dallas County jury already had convicted McCarthy of the slaying of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth at her home south of Dallas in 1997 when evidence at the punishment phase of her trial tied her to two similar murders a decade earlier.


Jurors determined she should be put to death.


Evidence showed Booth's finger was hacked off with a butcher knife to steal her wedding ring.

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Baven2 - 1/29/2013 7:48 PM
3 Votes
Twister is right, the death penalty isn't administered equally. More whites have been executed than any other race, and that's not fair. Anyway @Stabzz, the definition of murder is the UNLAWFUL killing of one human being by another. If a father kills his daughters rapist during the act, it's defense of another human and not unlawful. If a father kills his daughter's rapist for vigilante justice after the fact, then yes he's a murderer and must face the same penalty. And by the way, I'd be the first in line to kill my daughter's rapist (if that happened), and I'd accept the consequence. I also believe rapists should be given life (child rapists death also), so in my world a father would not need to off the rapist because justice would be served properly.

Lervia - 1/29/2013 3:00 PM
0 Votes
She's been given a stay with a new execution date of April 3.

Superspurs - 1/29/2013 2:14 PM
3 Votes
@Twister, it would be a deterrent if punishment was swift and painful. IT is not and lawyers keep death row inmates alive for decades and get them off on technicalities.

twister2 - 1/29/2013 12:26 PM
1 Vote
The death penalty doesn't deter crime, doesn't "send a message," doesn't save money, isn't administered equally and recipients have sometimes been found innocent after the state murdered them. The only thing it does is makes our savage brain feel better about serving justice to someone we don't know.

Superspurs - 1/29/2013 11:27 AM
0 Votes
Open up the flood gates. Lets line all these types up and pull the switch!

Johnny Cash - 1/29/2013 7:55 AM
1 Vote
Im real suprised nobody is crying racism or she has an IQ of a 5 year old. You kno the clasic line(" Your Honor my client didnt know what she was doing". If she didnt know whats shes doing then she wont know whats being done to her. Put her in the electric chair and tell her its a carnival ride.

LindaB - 1/29/2013 7:27 AM
3 Votes
Mack...if it were YOUR mother that was murdered...I think your opinion would be a whole lot different

LindaB - 1/29/2013 7:24 AM
2 Votes
good riddence...

Stabzz - 1/29/2013 7:01 AM
4 Votes
@Baven2: Just checking with you... So if a father kills his daughters rapist (still considered murder), he should be put to death? I doubt that is what your intention was but careful when saying "all". @Mack: So what should we do to teach people that something is wrong? Give them a place to live and eat off of others hard earnings? Give them a sit down and say, "you know what you did was wrong, right?" Look at other countries who enforce laws and punish accordingly. Why are their homicide rates lower?

charlie50 - 1/29/2013 6:52 AM
4 Votes
Good ......Bye
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