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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: dallaswareagle on January 28, 2013, 02:40:55 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/texas-woman-killed-neighbor-die-rare-execution-182238721.html
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years, for the stabbing murder of her neighbor in 1997.
Women are rarely executed in the United States. Only 12 female inmates were put to death since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The last woman executed was Teresa Lewis in Virginia on September 23, 2010, the information center said.
"Although women commit about 10 percent of murders, capital cases also require some aggravating factor like rape, robbery, or physical abuse," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the information center, adding that women usually have not committed a long list of prior felonies.
"It's unclear whether jurors or prosecutors may be more lenient in potential prosecutions of women, since there are relatively few," said Dieter.
McCarthy, 51, was convicted of entering the Lancaster, Texas home of her 71-year-old neighbor, Dorothy Booth, on July 21, 1997, under the pretense of borrowing some sugar. She then stabbed Booth five times, according to the Texas attorney general's summary of the case.
She also cut off Booth's left ring finger in order to take her diamond ring, which she later pawned.
McCarthy also was believed to be responsible for the murders of two other elderly women, one using a meat tenderizer as a weapon and another using a claw hammer, according to the Attorney General's summary.
McCarthy was found guilty in 1998 by a Dallas County jury of murdering Booth and sentenced to death. Her conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2001 because no attorney was present when she was questioned after the crime even though she had requested a lawyer, court documents show. She was tried a second time in 2002, was again found guilty by a Dallas County jury, and again sentenced to death.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2004 agreed with the second conviction.
McCarthy would be the second person executed in the United States so far this year. Forty-three inmates were put to death in 2012.
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Sounds to me like she was doing a public service. Dammit these were old people...thats what old people do..they die.
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Sounds to me like she was doing a public service. Dammit these were old people...thats what old people do..they die.
When salt and sugar kick your ass, it's pretty well time to get in the box.
(+1 Kinison)
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Evil knows no gender - neither does cruelty.
I have no problem with this.
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Sounds to me like she was doing a public service. Dammit these were old people...thats what old people do..they die.
I would giggle but then I would feel guilty, so I won't.
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Evil knows no gender - neither does cruelty.
I have no problem with this.
Except it took close to 16 years from date of crime to get this done. Thats along time of tax free living.
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Except it took close to 16 years from date of crime to get this done. Thats along time of tax free living.
Well the old bitch was taking your 2% from Social Security, so it's a wash.
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Except it took close to 16 years from date of crime to get this done. Thats along time of tax free living.
Now that is an embarassment - but I would bet it was East or West Coast libbie dogooder anti-death penalty lawyers that held up the process with meaningless appeals and delays.
It sounds like this was pretty cut and dried, and that this was not this woman's first rodeo when it comes to BEATING OLD LADIES TO DEATH. So justice delayed is still justice served, I suppose. To me, it would almost be worse - a long long time to anticipate the execution.
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Evil knows no gender - neither does cruelty.
I have no problem with this.
Not at all.
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BAN MEAT TENDERIZERS NOW!!!!!!!!1
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BAN MEAT TENDERIZERS NOW!!!!!!!!1
How you gonna stop the old age process?
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BAN MEAT TENDERIZERS NOW!!!!!!!!1
Just went back and read the article and this thread. This hussell demands recognition.
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Sounds to me like she was doing a public service. Dammit these were old people...thats what old people do..they die.
When salt and sugar kick your ass, it's pretty well time to get in the box.
(+1 Kinison)
Y'all need to find some better popular culture references...read some literature!...bitches... :poke:
"'Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly'"
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Y'all need to find some better popular culture references...read some literature!...bitches... :poke:
"'Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly'"
You are just upset cause the bitch that did the killing is a nubian
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You are just upset cause the bitch that did the killing is a nubian
I am distressed; it grieves me that the world will be without her Medusa-like beauty...