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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: dallaswareagle on June 26, 2013, 11:58:29 AM
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-prepares-execute-500th-inmate-1982-article-1.1382740
Texas prepares to execute 500th inmate since 1982
Kimberly McCarthy, 52, is set to be executed Wednesday in Huntsville. She would be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010. Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy.
If McCarthy is put to death in Huntsville as planned, she would become the 500th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. The 52-year-old also would be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010.
McCarthy’s attorney, Maurie Levin, said she has exhausted all efforts to block the execution, after denials by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
“If there was something to appeal, I would,†said Levin.
Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The state’s standing stems from its size as the nation’s second most populous state as well as its tradition of tough justice for killers.
With increased debate in recent years over wrongful convictions, some states have halted the practice entirely. However, 32 states have the death penalty on the books. Still, it’s clear the debate over capital punishment has touched Texas, with lawmakers providing more sentencing options for juries and courts narrowing the cases for which death can be sought.
McCarthy faces execution for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth’s finger to remove her wedding ring.
Police also had linked two other slayings to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who became addicted to crack cocaine.
In her appeals, McCarthy contended prosecutors improperly excluded black jurors and that her lawyers failed to challenge the moves at trial or in early appeals. McCarthy is black, and Booth was white. All but one of the 12 jurors at McCarthy’s trial were white.
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And Paula Deen can seek asylum there. I'm starting to really love Tejas.
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I couldn't possibly fit her in until Monday, I am booked solid.
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I couldn't possibly fit her in until Monday, I am booked solid.
Oh yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings
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Oh yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings
Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!
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Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!
My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
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My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
Ditto.
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Ditto.
Ditto?! Ditto, you provincial putz?
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:yallfu: :hijack:
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Texas gave the permanent snooze juice to a retard not too long ago. That's what I like about them, they don't discriminate.
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Ex-wife of founder of new black panther party, who was also linked via DNA evidence to two other murders of elderly women. Seems she likes to stab old ladies, and beat them with a meat tenderizer, a claw hammer (both sides), and a candelabra, respectively.
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Ex-wife of founder of new black panther party, who was also linked via DNA evidence to two other murders of elderly women. Seems she likes to stab old ladies, and beat them with a meat tenderizer, a claw hammer (both sides), and a candelabra, respectively.
She also uses a butcher knife to chop off people's fingers so she can steal their wedding rings.
Excuse me. Used, not uses. She has been reaping the whirlwind since 6:00 tonight.
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Na na na na, na na na na, hey-y-y, goodbye!
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Ex-wife of founder of new black panther party, who was also linked via DNA evidence to two other murders of elderly women. Seems she likes to stab old ladies, and beat them with a meat tenderizer, a claw hammer (both sides), and a candelabra, respectively.
Sorry I ruined your black panther party.
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Sorry I ruined your black panther party.
I have to pee
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I have to pee
I gawt shawt in da but-tocks.
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Ex-wife of founder of new black panther party, who was also linked via DNA evidence to two other murders of elderly women. Seems she likes to stab old ladies, and beat them with a meat tenderizer, a claw hammer (both sides), and a candelabra, respectively.
Damn! That woman was a walking game of Clue.
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I gawt shawt in da but-tocks.
Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.
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Damn! That woman was a walking game of Clue.
They call her Mrs. Peacock
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They call her Mrs. Peacock
You said pea and cock.
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Damn! That woman was a walking game of Clue.
The only room safe from her murdering activities was the study. There was learnin' books in dere.