HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — Texas, the nation's most prolific executioner of criminals, is about to put its 500th inmate to death since the mid-1970s. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy, a 52-year-old former Black Panther wife, will be given a lethal injection of pentobarbital at around 6:10 p.m. Wednesday for the murder of a 70-year-old Dallas County woman during a 1997 robbery. And while McCarthy's crime was a notorious one she used a butcher knife and candelabra to beat and fatally stab a retired college professor her death is likely to...
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