Texas prepares to execute 500th inmate

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By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press

Updated 2:19 pm, Wednesday, June 26, 2013

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.

"I remember thinking: We're really going to do this. This is really going to happen," says Willett, who was a captain for the Texas Department of Corrections.

 

When the van pulled away early the next morning, it carried to a nearby funeral home the body of convicted killer Charlie Brooks, who had just become the first Texas prisoner executed since a Supreme Court ruling six years earlier allowed the death penalty to resume in the United States.

 

What was unusual then has become rote. On Wednesday, barring a reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy will become the 500th convicted killer in Texas to receive a lethal injection

 

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Kimberly Lagayle McCARTHY

Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Robbery - Crack addict Number of victims: 1 - 3

Date of murder: December 1988 / July 21, 1997 Date of arrest: Next day Date of birth: May 11, 1961 Victims profile: Maggie Harding, 81, and Jettie Lucas, 85 / Dorothy Booth, 71 (her next-door neighbor) Method of murder: Stabbing with knife Location: Lancaster, Dallas County, Texas, USA Status: Sentenced to death on November 24, 1998. Sentence reversed in 2001. Resentenced to death on November 1, 2002

The United States Court of Appeals
For the Fifth Circuit

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For the Northern District of Texas

Dallas Division

 

Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy v. Rick Thaler, Director

 

 

 

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McCarthy, Kimberly Legayle: Black; age 36 at crime; murder of white female age 71 in Lancaster (Dallas County) on 7-21-1997; sentenced on 12-?-1998; reversed in 2001; resentenced on 11-1-2002.

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General Information:

Date of Birth - 5/11/1961

Date of Offense - 7/21/1997

Age at Time of Offense - 36

Prior Occupation - Occupational therapist, waitress, home health care, laborer

Education - 12

Prior Prison Record - Two year sentence for one count of forgery, received 2/12/90, released on parole on 6/04/90, discharged 12/09/91

Location of Crime - Dallas, Texas

Co-defendants - None

Race and Gender of Victim - White female

Crime Committed:

On 7/21/97, McCarthy entered the residence of a 70-year-old white female in Lancaster with the intent to rob the victim. A struggle took place and victim was stabbed numerous times resulting in her death. McCarthy then used the victim's credit cards and used the victim's vehicle for transportation.

Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice

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Kimberly McCarthy, Lancaster Woman Convicted of Murdering Neighbor For Crack Money, Set to Die Jan. 29

By Eric Nicholson - DallasObsever.com

September 13, 2012

It was a grisly scene Lancaster police found on July 22, 1997: Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired psychology professor, stabbed to death on the floor of her dining room stabbed, her left ring finger severed from her hand.

The evidence quickly led police to Kimberly McCarthy, Booth's next-door neighbor. McCarthy, police said, had taken Booth's ring to sell for crack. Immediately after the killing, she drove Booth's white Mercedes station wagon to a drug house, handed over the keys to one of the occupants and told him, according to a Morning News story, "I need some crack bad, give me a bump or something." During her trial, a police officer testified that McCarthy promised to confessed to the murder if he would give her crack.

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.

 

 

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