US media had it that a Dallas
County woman who was accused of stabbing and robbing Dorothy Booth, her
71-year-old Lancaster neighbor in 1997, will be executed on Tuesday by lethal
injection.
Dallas court jury gave a verdict
of guilty for Kimberly McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist, for stabbing
and robbing Dorothy Booth, her 71-year-old Lancaster neighbor in 1997. Booth was
stabbed five times with a knife.
McCarthy also faces capital
murder charges for two other murders in the recent decade.
According to a report in Xinhua,
Chinese news agency, from 1996 onward, it has executed 1309 men and 11
women.
American media has been
criticizing Iranian courts for execution of two criminal men who were extorting
money from people by threatening them with cold weapons.
Washington & New Hampshire provide for hanging as a means of execution but no one has been hung since 1996 in the U.S.
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