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Texas to execute woman murderer, first in US
since 2010
Tuesday January 29, 2013 12:20:42 PM,
IANS
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Houston:
A Texas woman convicted of killing and robbing her neighbour will
be executed by lethal injection Tuesday, the first woman to be put
to death in the US since 2010, a media report said.
A jury in Dallas, Texas, had found former nursing home therapist
Kimberly McCarthy guilty of the gruesome killing of her
71-year-old neighbour, Dorothy Booth, July 21, 1997, reported
Xinhua citing the Houston Chronicle.
McCarthy, 51, allegedly entered Booth's home in Lancaster, Texas,
under the pretence of borrowing some sugar. She stabbed Booth five
times, according to the Texas attorney general's summary of the
case.
She also reportedly cut off Booth's left ring finger in order to
take her diamond ring, which was later pawned.
McCarthy was also believed to be responsible for two similar
murders a decade earlier.
In one murder, she used a meat tenderizer as a weapon and another
used a claw hammer, according to the Attorney General's summary.
McCarthy's execution would be the first since a Virginia inmate,
Teresa Lewis, became the nation's 12th woman put to death since
capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976.
During the same period, 1,309 men have been executed, according to
the report.
McCarthy would also become the first woman executed in Texas in
more than eight years and the fourth overall in the state, which
executes the most people in the nation. Some 492 prisoners were
reportedly executed in the state since capital punishment resumed
30 years ago.
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