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Texas Women’s Death Row Inmate Seeks Delay In Execution
KWTX ^ | March 22, 2013

Posted on 03/22/2013 10:47:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy, who’s held on women’s death row in Gatesville, is asking a state district judge in Dallas to halt her execution, which is now scheduled for April 3.

McCarthy, who avoided execution with a last-day reprieve in January, asked State District Judge Larry Mitchell in a court filing Friday to put off the April 3 lethal injection until the fate of a bill related to issues in her case that was introduced March 6 in the Texas Legislature is determined.

Attorney Maurie Levin contends McCarthy's 1998 trial jury may have been unfairly selected on the basis of race.

A bill proposed by Sen. Royce West and Rep. Eric Johnson, both Dallas Democrats, would bar racial discrimination in capital case prosecution.

Levin argues that McCarthy, who’s black, was the subject of racial discrimination by the jury of 11 whites and only one black that convicted her.

McCarthy was convicted and sentenced to death in November 1998 for the July 21, 1997 murder of her neighbor, Dorothy Booth, 71, at Booth’s home in Lancaster.

Evidence showed McCarthy went to Booth’s home on the pretense of borrowing sugar and then stabbed the retired professor five times and hit her in the face with a candelabrum.

She cut off Booth’s left ring finger to take a diamond ring and nearly severed Booth’s left little finger as well, evidence showed.

She fled with Booth’s purse and wedding ring and later bought drugs with the stolen money, used the stolen credit cards and pawned the stolen ring, evidence showed.

On Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court without comment, refused to review McCarthy’s case.

McCarthy is one of 10 women on women's death row at the Mountainview Unit in Gatesville, but the only one with an execution date.


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To: Venturer

Exactly


21 posted on 03/23/2013 5:00:09 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: nickcarraway

That we have a “death row” shows the absurdity of our justice system.


22 posted on 03/23/2013 5:02:30 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: freekitty

Excuse me, this woman murdered 3 people, elderly people.

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She is sentenced to be executed for one, what where the other two murders and what were her sentences in them?


23 posted on 03/23/2013 5:18:43 AM PDT by deport
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To: nickcarraway

Call jesse jackson and al sharpton!


24 posted on 03/23/2013 5:42:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: nickcarraway
It infuriating that the race card is being played...again

She is guilty...the color of her skin has NOTHING to do with her guilt...

No doubt if a white drugged out crack ho who murdered her elderly neighbor, she would already be worm food...

25 posted on 03/23/2013 6:17:00 AM PDT by Popman
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To: Gator113

It would be sweet if the appeals court simply cited this precedent, substituting the name Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy for Jose Manuel Miguel Xaviar Gonzales, and modifying other personally identifiable characteristics.


26 posted on 03/23/2013 6:21:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Awesome post !!


27 posted on 03/23/2013 7:54:21 AM PDT by MountainYankee
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To: dfwgator

Well, they do have plenty of time (on death row) to find Jesus as well...


28 posted on 03/23/2013 7:56:37 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: deport

re: the other two murders

A jury convicted her of capital murder. She was indicted but not tried for the 1988 murders of Jettie Lucas and Maggie Harding, both 85-year-old friends of McCarthy’s mother. Lucas was beaten with a hammer and stabbed to death in her kitchen.

http://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mccarthy-kimberly.htm


29 posted on 03/23/2013 6:18:26 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: nickcarraway

Execution delayed, moved to June 26th:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/watkins-agrees-to-delay-womans-execution/


30 posted on 04/15/2013 10:21:10 AM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: Deo volente; stevie_d_64; MountainYankee; Lonesome in Massachussets; Popman; deport; 1010RD; ...

The sentence was carried out on June 26, 2013, which (like today) was a Wednesday. Hers was the 500th execution to be carried by lethal injection in the state of Texas.


31 posted on 05/24/2023 8:29:54 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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