Texas has carried out its 500th execution since it restored capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was put to death by lethal injection for the murder and robbery of her 71-year-old neighbour Dorothy Booth. She was the first woman to be executed in the US in nearly three years. McCarthy was pronounced dead at 6.37pm on Wednesday, 20 minutes after officials at the Walls Unit prison in...
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