“McCarthy was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. CDT, 20 minutes after Texas prison officials began administering a single, lethal dose of pentobarbital.” In her final words, 52-year-old Kimberly McCarthy did not mention the name of Dorothy Booth, the woman that she had killed 16 years earlier or any of her family members. She also did not say any words about being the 500th inmate to be executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. The Texas execution of Kimberly McCarthy on Wednesday evening was the first female execution in the United States in nearly three years. After Wednesday night’s 500th execution in Texas, Dorothy Booth’s daughter Donna Aldred read a...
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