Texas inmate Kimberly McCarthy’s name will be one to go down in history.The 52-year-old convicted murderer will be the 500th Texan and first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010. Texas is a very busy execution state, carrying out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions since the SCOTUS allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
McCarthy landed on death row for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of Dorothy Booth, a retired college psychology professor. She was accused of attacking Booth with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, Tex. and cutting off her finger to remove her wedding ring.
Attorney Maurie Levin said McCarthy exhausted all efforts to block the execution, after denials by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
