After three decades, Texas executes 500th inmate
HUNTSVILLE - As scores of death penalty protesters chanted, clapped and sang Wednesday, Dallas County convicted murderer Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th Texas inmate executed since the state...
View ArticleTexas executes first woman in U.S. in nearly three years
DALLAS (Reuters) - 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...
View ArticleProtesters gather outside Texas' 500th execution
Story Highlights The state is set to execute its 500th inmate since 1982Protesters gathered outside the prison WednesdayKimberly McCarthy set to be put to death in Huntsville...
View ArticleTexas Execution: No Last Meal Special Order In Milestone 500th Execution
A Texas execution represented both the rare execution of a female convicted prisoner and the 500th execution in the state since legal executions were resumed in 1982. 52-year-old Kimberly McCarthy was...
View Article‘When that door clangs, it’s either someone ready to die or...
In the northeast corner of the Huntsville Unit prison complex, Texas’s death chamber blends into other, larger red-brick buildings. It is known as the death house, its ominous name a contrast to its...
View ArticleWoman is 500th executed in Texas since 1982
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View ArticleGrim milestone: Texas set to execute 500th inmate
Texas is approaching a grim milestone: It will soon execute the 500th prisoner since the death penalty resumed in the United States. On Wednesday, barring a reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy will become the...
View ArticleFormer Huntsville, Texas warden still supports capital punishment after 140...
FORNEY, Texas (AP) — Charles Thomas O'Reilly supported capital punishment when he oversaw his first Texas execution. And he still supported it after his 100th. In six years as warden of the Huntsville...
View ArticleTexas prepares to execute 500th inmate since 1982
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy. If...
View ArticleUSA: Texas must halt “shameful” 500th execution (Amnesty International)
(Source: Amnesty International) Amnesty International is calling on the US state of Texas to halt its 500th execution since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States of America in...
View ArticleUSA: Texas carries out “shameful” 500th execution (Amnesty International)
(Source: Amnesty International) The US state of Texas has carried out its 500th execution since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States of America in 1976. In what it describes as...
View ArticleTexas' 500th execution since resuming capital punishment is female killer
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, who was...
View ArticleTexas Executes 500th Inmate, Kimberly McCarthy
Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th death row inmate, a woman named Kimberly McCarthy, 52. The execution was also the first for a female inmate in almost three years. McCarthy was found guilty of...
View ArticleTexas prepares for 500th execution, a woman
Houston— On Wednesday, Texas is scheduled to since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 — and the inmate is a woman. Kimberly McCarthy, 52, a former occupational therapist, was convicted and...
View ArticleAfro-American woman executed in Texas
Kimberly McCarthy (52) was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday, making her the 500th inmate put to death in the state since capital punishment was reinstituted in 1982, and...
View ArticleThe executed: A glance at 10 key Texas executions
Tenn. man charged in Romney tax return scheme 6 minutes ago 2 Ga. men sentenced in anti-gay hate crime 11 minutes ago The executed: A glance at 10 key Texas executions 11 minutes ago A history of...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee...
View Article>The executed: A glance at 10 key Texas executions
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas is approaching its 500th lethal injection since the Supreme Court in 1976 cleared the way to resume executions in the United States. The execution total in Texas is by...
View ArticleGrim milestone: Texas prepares for 500th execution since high court revived...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — 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:...
View ArticleTexas prepares to execute 500th inmate
HUNTSVILLE, Texas 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:...
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