Texas woman, Kimberly McCarthy, to die next week loses clemency bid
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Texas woman to die next week loses clemency bid
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:34 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously refused a clemency request from a Dallas County woman set to die next week for the slaying and robbery of a retired 71-year-old college psychology professor at her home.
Attorneys for Kimberly McCarthy had sought a 120-day reprieve from her scheduled Tuesday execution and that her sentence be commuted to life in prison.
The seven-member board Friday turned her down.
The 51-year-old McCarthy faces lethal injection in Huntsville for the 1997 stabbing and beating death of Dorothy Booth. Booth was a neighbor in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Evidence showed McCarthy called her to borrow a cup of sugar, then went to get it and attacked Booth.
McCarthy would be the fourth woman executed in Texas in modern times.
Posted 23 hours ago by Rick Stephens
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