Texas woman receives death penalty

On Wednesday, Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th person executed by the state of Texas since the death penalty was reinstated more than three decades ago. McCarthy had been convicted of killing Dorothy Booth and stealing her diamond ring.?

By Staff,?Reuters / June 26, 2013

Donna Aldred, left, and daughter, Leslie Lambert, right, listen during a news conference after the execution of Kimberly McCarthy Wednesday in Huntsville, Texas. McCarthy was convicted of killing Aldred's mother, Dorothy Booth.

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Texas?on Wednesday executed by lethal injection a woman convicted of stabbing her elderly neighbor to death in 1997, the first U.S. execution of a woman in nearly three years, the?Texas Department of Criminal Justice?said.

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Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. CDT (2337 GMT) at a?Texas?state prison, the department said. She was convicted of killing?Dorothy Booth, 71, in 1997, cutting off her ring finger and stealing a diamond ring that she then pawned.

McCarthy was the eighth person executed in?Texas?this year and the 500th put to death in the state since the?United States?restored capital punishment in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Executions of women remain rare in the?United States. Of the 1,338 inmates executed since the death penalty's reinstatement, only 13 have been women. Before McCarthy, the last woman executed was?Teresa Lewis?by?Virginia?in September 2010.

(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou and Eric Beech)

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