UPDATE II (April 1, 2013) — the comments to this post have been closed, as there is a new post up to discuss McCarthy’s new execution date on April 3.
UPDATE - The piece of shit got a temporary reprieve, as a pantie-wetting Liberal activist judge has rescheduled her date with the needle:
Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010.
State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy’s punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home therapist could have more time to pursue an appeal focused on whether her predominantly white jury was improperly selected on the basis of race.
I don’t give a rat’s ass if the jury was comprised of 12 white-hooded Klan members — all of sporting Nazi swastika tattoos on their foreheads and chanting “nigga, nigga, nigga” from the jury box. Her race has nothing — zilch, nada, zip — to do with her guilt in committing these crimes. Not even her defense team is contesting her actual guilt. And, the proscribed punishment for her her crime — committing murder during the commission of a felony — is death.
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To all the race hustlers out there: We’re not putting Kimberly McCarthy to death because she’s black; we’re putting her to death because she’s guilty.
- Thug: Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy (36 at time of offense)
- Date of Execution: January 29, 2013, sometime shortly after 6:00 pm HTT
- Date of Crime: July 21, 1997
- Victim(s): Dorothy Booth, 71
- Last Meal: Would you like a side of fries with that pentobarbital?
- Final Words: TBD
It’s been 15 years since Kimberly McCarthy brutally murdered her 71-year old neighbor. Tomorrow evening she will finally pay for that crime with her life.
The 2013 Execution season in Texas is off to a slow start, but it does finally get started tomorrow evening with the rare execution of a female killer. It’s not that female killers are rare, it’s just rare when they are executed. Of the 290 inmates currently sitting on Death Row in Texas, only 10 of ‘em are women.
Of those 10 women, Erica Yvonne Sheppard has been on the row the longest (April 1995), while Kimberly Cargill, who was received in June 2012, is the newest addition.
McCarthy will be only the 4th woman executed by the state of Texas since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment in 1976, to include Karla Faye Tucker (1998), Betty Lou Beets (2000), and Frances Newton (2005).
Facts of the Crime
In 1997, McCarthy entered the home of Booth stating she wanted to borrow some sugar, and then stabbed the victim five times. At some point during the assault, she hit Booth in the face with a candelabrum, and then cut off Booth’s left finger to take her diamond wedding ring.
Later, McCarthy left with Booth’s purse and Mercedes-Benz and drove to a crack house where she attempted to buy crack cocaine. It was also revealed that McCarthy “pawned Booth’s wedding ring for $200, and used the victim’s credit card at least four times on the day after the murder, ”according to a fifth circuit court document (Section No. 11-70019).
UPDATE — Michael Graczyk adds this from today’s Houston Chronicle:
“(McCarthy) quite literally took the woman, put her left hand on a chopping block of the kitchen and then used a knife to sever her ring finger while she was still alive,” said Greg Davis, the former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted McCarthy. “She took the ring from the finger that had been severed and continued the attack until she finally killed her.”
And this interesting tidbit:
McCarthy is a former wife of Aaron Michaels, founder of the New Black Panther Party, and he testified on her behalf. They had separated before Booth’s slaying.
Prior Criminal History
(Via the office of the Attorney General of Texas) In addition to Booth’s murder, McCarthy had also murdered two other elderly women. The first, Maggie Harding, was an 82-year-old longtime friend of McCarthy’s family, who had helped organize McCarthy’s wedding and had let McCarthy store excess furniture at her house. Harding was stabbed several times in the face, chest and abdomen, including one wound piercing her heart. She also suffered “dramatic” injuries to her face, including a broken jaw, crushed cheek bone, and bleeding on the brain. These wounds were consistent with being caused by a meat tenderizer found in the kitchen sink. Harding’s purse was missing from her home.
The second of McCarthy’s elderly victims was 85-year-old, physically disabled Jettie Lucas, a “distant cousin” of McCarthy’s mother. Lucas was stabbed in the face, including wounds piercing her eyes. She also suffered blunt force trauma to her head and neck, including strikes which tore one of her ears, fractured her skull, and caused bleeding on the brain. These injuries were consistent with a claw hammer found near Lucas’s body. The contents of Lucas’s purse and wallet were missing.
Think about the type of evil that must live in s person, which would enable them to attack and brutally murder the weakest among us.
Kimberly McCarthy is a dangerous, rabid animal. And, like any other dangerous rabid animal, needs to be put down. For her own sake as well as the sake of all others.
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It takes a real coward to kill the elderly or children. This POS is a poster child for the death penalty. Have a miserable last shit salad. Hope its something you hate the most.
Wow to be accused of this three different times she’s guilty!!!
Howzabout the fact she was convicted?
Dummkopf.
Howza about. Wow! hee hee.
When it’s out love ones we see diffrent. Never judge no one so shall you be judge.
How about fuck off, you pos! Again, see a psychiatrist. You are dangerous.
who cares if you are black white yellow or green if you kill a person you have to pay with your life not cry the race card.
Well. Since you put it that way. Don’t you think the executioners should get the same thing since they are murders?
There is no different from Kimberly killing and the Law. Murder is Murder.
Are you really as stupid as you appear? YOU don’t get to make up your own definitions for words. Murder is illegal. Execution is not. If anyone should be killed it is you for murdering the English language.
When it finally happens in April may she rest in pieces!
no may she suffer like the woman she killed
How would you even know if the woman she killed suffer. Maybe God eased her pain.
What Kimberly did was wrond indeed. I never wish death on anyone, regardless their race..
You think being stabbed numerous times doesn’t hurt? You think having your finger chopped off tickles? You need psychiatric help. You show a lack of empathy characteristic of psychopaths.
What she did was surely wrong. What justice is there when you throw stone to stone?
She would havr suffered more in life than death, well that’s what I think for I’ve nerver been dead.
If you had a close relative that was going to the needle for killing someone you would not want that. But I guess you say she’s not a relative of mines.
The exectioners are nothing but murders themselves!
Any relative or friend of mine who went around murdering old ladies in such a horrible way as McCarthy did, I would start the IV and push the drugs .
It takes a greedy man to do an execution.
Do you always reply to yourself?
She will also be only the 7th female executed in Texas history.
I had no clue until reading the AG’s press release that she had murdered two other elderly females. Bullzeye and Robbie are correct–McCarthy needs to be executed for the good of society as a whole.
(And on another note–for a long time this site was blocked at work. But it no longer is. So I can keep up with any late developments though I doubt there will be any as the SCOTUS denied cert earlier this month.)
I hope Bones is well-rested as he will be needed tomorrow evening. And so will our reporter friend Michael Graczyk.
It’s possible. It will depend on traffic after his last appointment, but Bones has every intention of presiding over the exit of this murderer.
What happened to Ripkowski’s execution date? I no longer see it on the TDJC site. Was it tentatively stayed because he claims he is ‘mentally incompetent?’
Some judge who the defense “shopped around for” decided that Ripkowski’s bipolar disorder needs further review. This after this PoS was denied at every step including the SCOTUS. I sincerely hope that the SA Office challenges this judge’s delay simply because he has no precendent and had abused his discretion.
If his defense lawyers did this, can prosecutors also request to lift the stay and proceed as was planned before the stay?
I read something to the effect that the judge wants Ripkowski to be medicated first. Can I suggest cyanide. Did I just say this
Know what else is just as rare as a female being executed Mark? Hopefully the POS won’t live as long as her victims! Thats justice.
Good point, usually the victims are much, much younger.
And we’re under 12 hours to go.
US woman seeks last-minute death penalty reprieve
Kimberly McCarthy, set Tuesday to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2010, has sought a last-minute reprieve from the Texas governor.
McCarthy’s lawyers asked Governor Rick Perry to issue a 30-day reprieve because of the racial bias they argued impacted the case.
McCarthy, 51, is black. Her victim, 70-year-old retired professor Dorothy Booth, was white.
“The unacceptable disparate impact of race on the administration of the death penalty in Texas has become increasingly well established,” her lawyers wrote.
They noted that despite the fact that her home county is 22.5 percent black, only one non-white juror judged McCarthy and three non-whites jurors “were unilaterally excluded by the state despite being fully qualified to serve.”
They further argued that 42 percent of people sentenced to death in Dallas county were black while 70 percent of the 24 men exonerated with DNA evidence in the same county were African Americans.
“A remedy is not only warranted, but demanded,” her lawyers argued in a letter dated Monday and obtained Tuesday.
McCarthy — who has been on death row for 14 years — is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm (2300 GMT) Tuesday after the US Supreme Court rejected her final appeal, prison officials said.
She will be just the 13th woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976.
McCarthy was convicted of forcing her way into her elderly neighbor’s home near Dallas under the pretext of borrowing some sugar in 1997, court records show.
She then smashed Booth in the face with a candle stick, stabbed her five times and cut off her finger to steal her diamond ring.
McCarthy drove off in Booth’s Mercedes and tried to buy some crack, court documents showed. She also used Booth’s credit cards at least four times and pawned her wedding ring for $200 before she was caught.
Prosecutors also accused her of killing two other elderly people.
She was sentenced to death in 1998, saw her conviction overturned on appeal and then was convicted and condemned again in a second trial in 2002.
“There’s a good chance that she would not be sentenced to death if tried now,” said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
“A case like this involving apparent drug addiction and other mitigating factors might well have been settled without the death penalty.”
Texas was sentencing as many as 40 people to death a year before the courts began providing juries with the alternative sentence of life without parole. That number has now since dropped to about eight people a year, Dieter said.
McCarthy will be the fourth woman executed in Texas since 1976, out of a total of 493. Nine other women are among the 304 people on the state’s death row.
A dozen women were among the 1,321 people executed since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Of the 3,199 people on death row as of October 1, 63 were women and 42
If McCarthy’s lawyers think Perry is going to grant a 30-day stay, they should turn in their law licenses on the basis of stupidity.
They’re basically rearguing what is called a Batson challenge to the makeup of the jury. (A Batson challenge is one where a juror is purportedly stricken on a peremptory challenge solely on the basis of race.)
Batson was decided in 1986, well before both McCarthy’s first trial (1998, which was overturned by TCCA in 2001 on direct appeal) and her second trial (2002, affirmed on direct appeal in 2004, SCOTUS cert denied 2005, state habeas denied 2007, federal habeas denied by Northern District in 2011, 5th Circuit denied Certificate of Appealability in 2012, SCOTUS again denied cert earlier this month).
Her attorneys have had plenty of opportunity to argue a Batson challenge and have not been successful in doing so.
I wouldn’t be too surprised were Governor Rick Perry to grant Kimberly McCarthy a 30 day stay of execution. When I arrive home from work (an hour commute upon snowy roads) I’m celebrating this execution with a barbecue dinner, few glasses of scotch & a volley of fireworks. Due to the female sympathy factor (whatever happened to woman’s lib & equality?) I’ll wait for confirmation of McCarthy’s death before lighting the fireworks.
No man or woman need to be executed.
I am agaist the death penalty because there has been quite a few innocents that were executed then found out later they were innocent.
What Kimberly did was so wrong, oh so wrong. But I don’t wish her dead. It was really ashame what happen to those elderly women, but killing Kimberly will not be bringing them back. No I will not blame it on drugs, I blame in on Kimberly who was not strong enough to handle what she was taking in.
Texas and Georgia are the two most racist place to me in the world. Maybe you should here some of their secret execution videos. They enjoy what they do, to the point they said, now bring us some more.
Racism has nothing to do with McCarthy’s execution. Arguing so you gain nothing. But I do respect your opinion. Have a wonderful day.
I am agaist the death penalty because there has been quite a few innocents that were executed then found out later they were innocent.
Bullshit.
It was really ashame what happen to those elderly women…
Your empathy is underwhelming…
, but killing Kimberly will not be bringing them back.
Nor will locking her up in general pop with the possibility of being paroled one day, either.
Texas and Georgia are the two most racist place to me in the world.
You’re the racist.
There appears to be some mis-information going around, the original source being Jordan Smith — who has never met a thug she didn’t love. On multiple murders, Texas routinely goes forward on one count & introduces the others as aggravating factors in the penalty phase. It’s a smart way to prosecute cases, in that it shortens the length of the trial & the appeals considerably.
The murders of Mrs Harding & Mrs. Lucas, used as aggravating factors, were connected to McCarthy by the same M.O., the fact that they were acquaintances, & through DNA and a hand print. The two prior murders were never challenged on appeal. So, for Smith & others to claim that “whether McCarthy did actually committed those murders remains an open question; she has never been tried for either crime” is bullshit.
Can Jordan Smith hold McCarthy’s hand tomorrow? I bet she won’t be there, as busy a woman she is.
Another reason they only try one crime is that, in the event a conviction is overturned and the likelihood of a subsequent conviction on that count isn’t too good, they can then charge the defendant with one of the other crimes and hope for success on that one.
Also, are there any male hybristophiliacs wanting to marry McCarthy?
That last sentence gave me a hearty laugh Mark. I wanted to use that little laughing guy N2L has on one of his posts but for now imagine me rolling on the floor holding my stomach.
I copy/pasted this from another site.
The execution Tuesday of a Texas woman convicted in the gruesome murder of her 71-year-old neighbor will mark the first time in three years that a female inmate has been put to death in the U.S.
Kimberly McCarthy, 51, was sentenced to death for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Investigators say Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas.
It was among three slayings linked to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who’d been addicted to crack cocaine. Her lethal injection is scheduled for Tuesday evening.
McCarthy will be the 13th woman executed in the U.S. and the fourth in Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. In that same time period, more than 1,300 male inmates have been executed nationwide.
Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics compiled from 1980 through 2008 show women make up about 10 percent of homicide offenders nationwide. According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 3,146 people were on the nation’s death rows as of last Oct. 1, and only 63 — 2 percent — were women.
In a final legal effort to spare her life, McCarthy’s lawyers asked Gov. Rick Perry on Monday to use his executive authority to issue a 30-day reprieve. They also appealed to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins to withdraw or modify the execution date, citing his support that Texas adopt a law allowing death-row inmates to appeal on racial grounds. McCarthy is black, while all but one of her 12 Dallas County jurors were white.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month refused to review her case, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down a clemency request Friday.
Her lead attorney, Doug Parks, said drug use was McCarthy’s downfall.
“I think when she’s off dope she’s probably a pretty good person,” he said. “I believe now, as I did then, that in the penitentiary, Kim would be absolutely no danger to anyone.”
McCarthy declined to speak with reporters as her execution date neared.
Evidence showed that McCarthy called Booth to borrow a cup of sugar. When she came to pick it up, McCarthy attacked Booth, including forcing the woman’s hand to a chopping block so she could cut off her finger to remove her wedding ring.
“I remember the pain and agony that poor woman lived through before McCarthy delivered the final stab wounds,” former Dallas County assistant district attorney Greg Davis recalled last week.
Blood DNA evidence also tied McCarthy to the December 1988 slayings of 81-year-old Maggie Harding and 85-year-old Jettie Lucas. Harding was stabbed and beaten with a meat tenderizer, while Lucas was beaten with both sides of a claw hammer and stabbed.
McCarthy, who denied any involvement in the attacks, was indicted but not tried for those slayings.
“She took the most defenseless, the most helpless people, people that trusted her, that she chose to attack,” Davis said.
The Dallas County jury had already found McCarthy guilty of Booth’s slaying when evidence during the punishment phase of her trial linked her to the other two slayings and convinced jurors to send her to death row.
Prosecutors also showed that McCarthy stole Booth’s Mercedes and drove to Dallas, pawned the ring for $200 and then went to a crack house to buy cocaine. Evidence also showed she used Booth’s credit cards at a liquor store and was carrying Booth’s driver’s license.
Booth’s DNA was found on a 10-inch butcher knife recovered from McCarthy’s home.
McCarthy said she blamed the crime on two drug dealers she identified only as “Kilo” and “J.C.” There was no evidence to show either existed.
McCarthy was tried twice for Booth’s slaying, most recently in 2002. Her first conviction in 1998 was thrown out three years later by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which ruled police violated her rights by using a statement she made to them after asking for a lawyer.
McCarthy is a former wife of Aaron Michaels, founder of the New Black Panther Party, and he testified on her behalf. They had separated before Booth’s slaying.
McCarthy is among 10 women on death row in Texas, but the only one with an execution date.
In 1998, Karla Faye Tucker, 38, became the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War for a robbery in Houston where two people were killed with a pickax. Two years later, a 62-year-old great-grandmother, Betty Lou Beets, received lethal injection for the slaying of her fifth husband in northeast Texas to collect insurance and pension benefits. And in 2004, Frances Newton, 40, was executed for the 1987 slayings of her husband and two children in Houston.
At least eight male Texas prisoners have executions scheduled in the coming months.
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I meant she was not tried.
Are u for real? Her trial record is readily available. Use some of the brain cells u have left to look it up.
Exactly. She was tried!
I would hope they just let her spend the rest of her life in prison.
They are no better than Kimberly….meanng the executioners, Judges and all those who allow execution to happen.
You’re no better than the bitch who murdered three elderly women.
[Link to video deleted by Robbie]
For a Texan this is quite a bright guy with a bright message
Uh…no. David Dow is a piece-of-shit human. I’ve posted about him before, where I wrote:
Oh, and I’ve deleted the link you posted to his Youtube propaganda. Because I can.
Thank you Robbie,, I sure didn’t want to read it anyway and I doubt I would have if you didn’t delete it.
I wonder if David Dow tutored under the former attorney Fred “Leatherman”? He’s seen on YouTube (now convicted felon) dumpster diving, otherwise they sound as though they’re two peas in a pod. Except that Fred was an indifferent lawyer who allowed probable innocent clients to be convicted.
Yeah expected that reaction from a less intelligent fat ass who believes he is Gods gift to American freedom but fortunately he’s NOT last election kicked these less intelligent asses remember and don’t forget that
David Dow’s sock puppet?
Could be, but it was the same ip from the Netherlands in the previous post.
why do these foreigners feel the need to worry about the death penalty?… in Texas??? must be really boring in the netherlands!!
Boring and shitty.
@ I Love Thugs,, You just ruined any bonner I had about a vacation to the Netherlands. It really sucks to be you.
There are really nice people in Holland so really don’t let some idiot ruin that lol. There’s a difference with not agreeing and not agreeing with things.
Holland is really nice. I am nice. I don’t agree with everything that happeneds in the US same as people in the US think that about us.
But it’s not my country and not for me to judge. If someone lives in the US he knows he can get the dp if he commits certain crimes. Then it’s only him to blame for it.
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Enough about that. You really should visit The Netherlands again.
Here’s the fucking difference: We don’t go to foreign forums/blogs and lecture people, you and your ilk do.
And where do I do that? I never give anyone a lecture about anything. I clearly say your country your laws.
Not for me to judge about.
Our country our laws? Why, thank you. No one knew that before you graced us with your presence to lecture us.
“Troll!”
I understand the reason for your nom de l’Internet – you love yourself.
Well, someone has to I guess. Best it be yourself so no innocents are unduly affected.
well dam she deserves to die and i hope she rots in hell for it. to quote samual l jackson in the movie a long kiss good night. my god this lady had no feelings and should be laid on a table with a press over her body full of knives and should be lowered over her for the total amounts of times she stabbed each of those ladies.I mean stabb her for the first 1 than raise it up add more knives lower it and again till that not a woman or human being but a low klife scum bag of flesh is dead. sorry i belive in an eye for an eye
Ah. I see the thuglovers came out to play. Only one though? *sniff* they’re slacking off.
I made the mistake of reading pto & another case they are mooing over:
Thank you to everyone for the kind words regarding Robert’s passing. It has been more than 6 years and 3 months since his passing, and I perhaps will never have all the full details of what happened when he suffered a stroke and where he was in the cell, or how long it took to get him to the hospital. I am a very close relative who used to drive many miles to see him, and was very proud to be his family member. It breaks my heart to see the comments that people on the outside of the system have to say about him, they are so quick to crucify him with not having all the details, and that it was circumstantial evidence surrounding his case.
This guy raped, tortured, & strangled a 12 year old newsboy. http://50cases.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/25/day-24-a-newspaper-boy-is-tortured-and-murdered/731/
They found his bike outside the pervert’s apt, his sandals inside the perverts bedroom, the body hogtied & dumped on the side of a road, & the pervert confessed. He also had been paroled 4 months earlier for raping a kid. But the asshole above will continue to make excuses for the thug. If I encountered this person in real life, I would smack the hell out of them. I am so sick of these assholes.
I agree, its amazing that these hug-a-thug’s can say that shit with a straight face.. circumstantial evidence?? what a joke!!!
Well, time to resume bussiness as usual here in the great state of Texas, holidays are over, and a list of shit to dispose of… kind of glad this old Don king look alike is first up for the juice… a real angel this one.. taking advantage of old people she was supposed to be helping, then killing them!!… all for a rock of cocaine!!.. oh well, she will get her ultimate high sometime around 6pm tommorrow…. too bad they cant give her a lethal dose of what she craved so much…im just gong to bust out the popcorn and wait for bones to deliver the good news!!
Don King look a like? LOLOL
I can’t find a definite photo of Dorothy J. Booth to post here, and it pisses me off to no end. Photos of the condemned to die POS are in abundance, as if her life or death is of some consequence. But Dorothy Booth, not one photo to adorn this page with that sweet ladies life well spent. Not even El Centro College, where she taught psychology for 20+ years, has a photo, even though they do have a memorial scholarship in her honor.
If any family or friend of Dorothy Booth see this comment, please provide us with a photo of her, she needs to be remembered as having been one of our good citizens and a victim of a horrific crime perpetrated by an unfeeling creature unfit to walk this earth.
This photo is floating around but I’m not convinced that it is her: http://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mccarthy-kimberly.htm
This is definitely not her. The photo is of a retired U of Mich nursing prof. The victim’s name is Dorthy Johnson Booth who retired from El Centro College from the dept. of psych.
El Centro College appears to be geared towards minority students, they offer a Dorothy Johnson Booth memorial scholarship. No images of Dorothy Johnson Booth listed from 1990 to 1997 faculty, no pictures of her displayed in faculty or staff. No image from obituary. It’s as if there’s no available image of the woman & that sucks because I’d prefer the victim have a larger picture than the POS murderer.
Under 24 hours to go.
And in this case a much longer ride from death row to Huntsville (since Gatesville, home of women’s death row, is SW of Waco and north of Fort Hood).
I hope this will close the file on Kimberly McCarthy, for good. I hope the families are at peace, as well as Kimberly’s family, for they two has lost a love one. The crime that was committed was awful to say the least. But if she did commit the murders, whoever does the execution on tomorrow, what would you call them. If they can put her to death go home, to their family, sit down to dinner as if nothing has happen, with no remorse. Well it seems they have the same character that Kimberly had. So “Judge Not, les You Be Judged. So those of us with our views, let us pray for both families and the one who will actually perform the execution. May god have mercy on all, that this have affected. Everyone lost, there are no winners. Goodnight
Fuck you.
How articulate of you…..any formal schooling?!
Originally Posted by bem17356
She’s guilty as sin……….no doubt about that and is worthy of death I’ll give you……….I only suggest that LWOP would/should be the more appropriate punishment in this case.
Fuck you, too.
And your point is?!
It’s proof positive that you are a fucking moron. What kind of asshole would “suggest” this woman should be sentenced to lwop, which would be an illegal sentence, b/c it would be “more appropriate”? Oh, yeah, an asshole like you….
I pause only to note, that you hide behind Anonymous in your use of profane language. You haven’t even the courage to use a proper Username. This fact alone speaks volumes about your character. Now by all means give us yet another example of your incredibly small mind attempting to express itself.
PS: Oh…..and one final thought….. spare us your simpletons school marm spelling grammer and punctuation stitck. Only an ignoramus such as yourself would think it a thoughtful or snappy retort.
No, I don’t use a name because it drives assholes like you and Julia crazy.
p.s.: If douchebags like you are going to criticize other people’s spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., be prepared to have your own mistakes pointed out.
p.p.s.: It’s grammar – not grammer, you moron.
Now ooze over to pto where you can fap over McCarthy as much as you want.
Go look up the definition of “murder.”
To even try to compare the roll that a state-appointed executioner to the horrifically brutal acts committed by McCarthy shows how morally bankrupt you truly are.
Robbie; I’m an Atheist, I’ve no religious guilt to trouble my conscience. I’ll fly down to Texas if necessary & do the job if nobody else wants to. I’d have no problem carrying out the legal State execution of murderous extreme violent felons. Permanent elimination of the worst of the worst from every sect of society, is the function of the death penalty. Those extreme violent felons which a jury has deemed too dangerous to exist within society will be permanently eliminated regardless of race or sex. Yep give me the job! How much does it pay & can I take a two week vacation to the Bahamas?
You’re hired.
Is that you TKE?!
‘Judge not lest ye be judged’ is not an injunction to suspend judgment but rather to be aware that you are as apt to be judged as to pass judgment.
Only fools and liars attempt to make it other than it is.
Not likely; This is headed towards another never ending Preston Hughes fiasco.
This poor woman was alive when the evil bitch cut her finger off to steal her ring.
In a final legal effort to spare her life, McCarthy’s lawyers asked Gov. Rick Perry on Monday to use his executive authority to issue a 30-day reprieve. They also appealed to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins to withdraw or modify the execution date, citing his support that Texas adopt a law allowing death-row inmates to appeal on racial grounds. McCarthy is black, while all but one of her 12 Dallas County jurors were white.
OMG! They want to turn Texas into North Carolina where they give people a pass on murder simply for being black. If the legal proceedings have evidence of racial bias, there is already ways to appeal it. What they are proposing is a get off death row for free law. It figures that Watkins would support such a law. It also creates another delay in imposing the death penalty since like in North Carolina, *all* the inmates will file appeals on those grounds and demand hearings.
Yeah, the POS Watkins is at it again.
One of the comments:
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Then why is DA Craig Watkins not taking messages in defense of Kimberly McCarthy who is sentenced to die TOMORROW (TUESDAY)??? Is this a racist conviction and sentencing? DO NOT EXECUTE ANYONE while there is ANY QUESTION as to their guilt or innocence. Unbelievable!!!
Wow! Affirmative action at its best
North Carolina has had a long history that perhaps supported this law there, and for this move they will be paying with increase in crime anyway. I doubt this effort will succeed in Texas.
While I definitely don’t disagree that this woman has committed a terrible offense and I am in no way defending her or her actions, I find it very hard to believe that a writer of this article would publish such a poorly written article that is full of untruths. First of all, use spell check! Secondly, quote the facts! This person deserves the punishment for her crime but your article suggests that she has been convicted of killing three women and that’s not true. You don’t have to exaggerate to get your point across, just tell the truth! This lady was never even tried for those other two murders (they just suspect that she did it) and that is what you should be saying. It bothers me when people add to the truth to try to get more emotion out of people. The crime she is being executed for is bad enough you don’t need to be extra. Oh and by the way, that little slang you tried to put in the article is not cutting it, use English. Writers should be responsible and ethical.
What the hell are you rambling about? Care to point out any misspelled words in this article? And remember, I use American English spellings rather than the nearly-illiterate rubbish used across the pond.
As to your point about the “untruths” of the other two murders. Those facts came from the Website of the Attorney General of Texas. There are a myriad of reasons why she wasn’t tried on those charges (start reading the comments to this post from the top, and you’ll find most of them). Mostly because they only needed one count of murder during the commission of a felony to get her the death penalty.
Nearly illeterate rubbish used accross the pond….,remind me,where did the English language originate…mindyou.so many Americanisms over here now,we are in danger of laying any claim to it!! That said,i love to read Urbangrounds and would love to comment but too scared to most of the time lol!!
I actually adore the English language, and it’s origins “over there.” Just poking fun at that commenter. And please, feel free to jump into the fray (agree or disagree). The more the merrier.
Thank you Robbie,have been reading Urban Grounds for a while and am learning about your legal system all the time.My only wish is that we could take a leaf out of your book especially with some of the offenders we have living the high life behind bars at my expense!
” I find it very hard to believe that a writer of this article would publish such a poorly written article that is full of untruths. First of all, use spell check!”
Hey fuckstain…..be careful when lecturing others…….
“This person deserves the punishment for her crime but your articl”
It would be you are or you’re! Then you used it again a little further down. Hahahahaha! To say idiot would be insulting to idiots! You are nothing more than a euroweenie dueschenozzle! Pay attention to your (notice I used the correct version of “your”) home country and stay the fuck out of TEXAS’ business!
GOD BLESS TEXAS!!
+ 1,000 D Mac
Ummm no, how about -5,000 for D Mac???
It’s not “you’re” or “you are” article, it’s “your article”
Almost as good as when Dubya asked that famous question, “Is our children learning?” Nice……
TEXAS IS A 3RD`WORLD STATE…RAN BY MORONS
This from an idiot unable to distinguish verb tenses.
Well “Kris”…. you are entitled to your opinion. But unless you live in OUR state, you should keep your pie hole clossed. If you do live on OUR state, you would be what we call the minority opinion. So fuck off and mind your own business because I guarnatee if you visited OUR great state, you would think twice about committing a crime. That would be because of the consequences you know exist.
One last thing “Kris”……
“RAN BY MORONS”……. That would be “Run” you half wit. Thanks for confirming that you are a mental midget!
GOD BLESS TEXAS!!
No….your article would be correct….now who’s the moron??
Stay in “your” lane homie!!
#jabroni
You are mis-using the ellipsis. You are the moron.
#fuckoff
You got a PhD in writing pee brain. I only ask because your of such obviously negligible intellect.
It’s you are or you’re — not your, moron.
I really don’t care that she had a drug problem. There were plenty of programs to go get help. And most drug addicts do no commit murder. She could have easily stolen to support her drug habit without murdering three elderly women in the most brutal way possible.
Caucasian are to blame. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa…. Being black is a huge excuse to murder and affirmative action is an impetus to do so
The history of most who are criminal and use drugs indicates the criminality preceded the drug use.
I think that they take drugs because affirmative action allows them to do so
Too bad it’s not the electric chair. Can’t help but thinking of my grandmother when I consider the victims. Have a safe trip to hell.
Antone who thinks making fun and cheap wise cracks about another human being murdered is evil
Antone?
Why bring him into this conversation?
Not murdered…. punished for her crimes. A debt she owes me and every other Texan that has paid to keep this piece of shit breathing.
Lethal injection is too good for her. Get a rope….. ha, a white man saying hang a black woman. WOW, I bet the “racist” comments will fly!!
FUCK off “Kris”!
hmmm guess it’s still too early for the racist comments to be flying. maybe later this evening? we shall see.
You really are entirely too stupid to be allowed out without an attendant.
The murder victim was Dorothy Booth.
And the only ones ‘making fun and cheap wise cracks’ about her are those, like you, who defend and excuse Kimberly McCarthy.
They may try to blame “crack” for these heinous crimes and consider her a “nice” person when she is clean; however, I know tons of “crack” addicts that have robbed the elderly and never have I seen one who dismembered a victim, pulverized their faces, stabbed their eyes out, etc. The most disturbing part was that she knew these people and they trusted her. She is pure evil! The lawyers can say she is no threat while incarcerated but the public tends to forget that officers are people too. They live in danger every day, not that they mind, but shouldn’t we consider their safety? I’d like to see McCarthy’s disciplinary record while incarcerated. If ever there has been a person who deserves the death penalty, I would certainly say that she is worthy! God have mercy on her soul. Stand strong Governor Perry!
No problem regarding her “disciplinary record while incarcerated”. From the AG press release:
“While incarcerated awaiting trial, McCarthy assaulted, threatened and took advantage of other inmates, and violated many prison rules.”
I doubt much changed while at Gatesville.
From the OAG: While incarcerated awaiting trial, McCarthy assaulted, threatened and took advantage of other inmates, and violated many prison rules.
Whilst the United States continues to murder its own children on this wretched death row it will continue to be looked down upon as a third world nation by the civilized modern world. Whilst the so called ‘justice’ of the U.S courts remains only available to the few with deep enough pockets to purchase it and until the system is mature enough to stop “murdering” innocent human beings…this madness called Death Row must stop.
Shame is brought upon all the citizens of Texas for allowing it’s administration to murder its own children.
News flash to Mr. or Ms. Finch (as Kris can be either male or female):
WE DON’T CARE WHAT THE REST OF THE “CIVILIZED MODERN WORLD” THINKS.
And considering that the “civilized modern world” includes Norway, where one of the worst mass murderers in history can serve NO MORE THAN 21 YEARS TOTAL for killing 70+ people, I’d rather not be a part of such “civility”. I’d rather know that thugs like McCarthy can no longer prey upon the elderly, who due to advanced age and declining health are among the most defenseless members of our society.
Your facts are wrong. Breivik can spend is whole life in prison, but he can only get 21 years, and then it can be renewed for 5 years every 5 years after that or something like that. So he can spend his whole life in prison if the court find him a threat to Norway.
Would it not be easier to give him live in the first place? Norwegians’ lack of logic is very telling.
LWOP that is…
3.42 years per murder must be considered justice across the pond.
Considering you live in the UK, a country that has almost 5 times the violent crime rate as the U.S., any lectures from you on civility are worthless drivel.
Where is this clown’s IP address originate from? Please let know so we can customize our responses.
Aha, thanks N2L: Another one of the queen mommy’s ass lickers. Does it not taste as good as it used for this clown to comment on American matters? Hey Kris – Charles needs you to change his diaper.
You’re an insane person.
In which country is a 51 year old considered a child?
Only an idiot or a left/liberal/progressive – but I repeat myself – would consider a person of 36 years a ‘child’.
There is nothing ‘civilised’ about refusing to allow the citizenry to defend itself through the imposition of a penalty of death for heinous crimes. And considering the crime rate of much of the ‘civilised modern world’ the evidence is that the United States does a far better job than those ‘exemplars’.
And we are now under five hours to go with McCarthy well on her way to Huntsville.
I’ve seen nothing from either the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the US 5th Circuit, or SCOTUS on this case. Given that the SCOTUS denied cert earlier this month, and that her attorneys are trying the gubernatorial 30-day clemency route, I expect to see nothing further from any court on this case (though if anyone does feel free to post a link).
It looks as if 2013′s execution chamber shall begin on a historic note.
Indeed, this calls for a song.
The bitch got a stay!
Post-poned by a “friendly” judge to April 3, 2013.
Dallas County Prosecutor will not challenge this decision.
And here’s the link:
http://news.msn.com/us/request-made-to-halt-womans-execution-in-texas
And it appears Watkins isn’t going to appeal the decision.
Can this type of reprieve occur again?
The defense had 11 years to challenge the racial makeup of the jury yet they wait until now?
Another loophole in the statute. But this is about a judge’s improper issue of a stay. No precedent and abuse of discretion. The DA needs to be kicked out of office at election time for her decision not to appeal this stay. She must be more concerned about her standing with the judges than with justice.
Watkins will never be voted out. Nor will the judge if he is a Democrat. Dallas County is solid blue. Glad I moved to Denton County.
Well, let’s hope this a go on April 3rd, 2013.
What a bummer…. Bet this bitch is high fiving every thug on the row all the way back.to.her cell…sickening!!!
Sooner than later, she will be executed.
April 3 can’t come soon enough. One less POS breathing air.
What really pisses me off is that the basis for this appeal is not predicated on guilt or innocence but on on the racial make up of the jury!
Again, loopholes in the statute that allow for frivolous appeals. But, as Mark R pointed out – Dallas County is solid blue, which also means a lot in terms of how such appeals play out.
Today, Swearingen’s attys are back in court asking for a stay & for DNA testing. Cellmark has stated that they can do the tests in 10 working days, which is well before the 2/27/2013 execution date. The DA has agreed to the testing and now the defense is objecting. Obviously, it is all about stalling.
Yeap, they are pulling what’s become known as the Skinner Maneuver
Somebody’s got to stop this madness….
So many tax dollars wasted on feeding this worthless violent criminal. And more delay now?
Ugh.
thats what keeps them worthless pricks in there jobes
11m Christine Dobbyn ?@ChristineDobbyn
Attorneys argue over DNA testing and an execution stay for Larry Swearingen in front of Montgomery County Judge Kelly Case.
They are pulling a fast one by arguing that the law which was changed Sept 2011, changes the standards. It’s a way of making the appeal about procedure and not evidence.
Son of a bitch!!!! Swearingen’s execution date has been vacated.
That’s all Swearingen and his weasels wanted, to stall the execution, and this judge accommodates them. Disgusting.
It’s a new judge. Edwards was pretty good & cut through the bullshit. Shame on this new guy. This plus the McCarthy delay plus the Hood plea – I’m losing what little faith I had in the justice system.
Justice delayed…one would think any judge would understand this simple concept, particularly when there are no questions surrounding her/his guilt.
Not if one is an “activist” judge. This trend seems to be spreading across the country.
TDJC updated list:
Jefferey Williams added today – 5/15/13
Richard Cobb added today – 4/25/13
Ricky Lewis added today – 4/9/13
Suffice to say, April is pretty much saturated.
I bet that the hybristophiliacs will come out in numbers for Cobb. We better get ready!!!!!
What I found interesting was that Cobb actually got the execution date that is a day before his buddy-in-murdering, Beunka Adams, who was executed on 4/26/12.
Being executed on the same day as his sick, murdering co-defendant would have been fitting.
I believe you mean prescribed.
I see Dave Muff wants musicians to write/dedicate songs for Darlie Routier.
I think I’ll write one for her titled: I Stabbed to Death My Children!
Remind me who Dave Muff is? I know I’ve heard the name.
As for Darlie’s song, I will write one called: I Laughed And Danced On My Babies Graves.
Heh — good one.
It’s Dave Moff. Darlie is his imaginary girlfriend.
Sick bastard, makes me think I need to write a song for hybristophiles and call it: Your Kill Gives Me A Thrill.
He also wrote this crap:
Dave Moff In exchange for the release of Kimberly McCarthy, I offer….myself. If the State Of Texas requires a body, they may have mine. I will take full responsibility for transport to Dallas-Ft. Worth, where I will surrender myself to authorities for execution as soon as Ms. McCarthy is released. I will make not attempt to prolong or save my life. January 29th will serve nicely and I will be sure to be present on or before that date. I will happily sign a contract or other agreement with the State Of Texas, so that I will have been granted “due process”. What do you say, Governor Ryan? The world will be no better off for Kimberly McCarthy’s death. If you wish to persist in this farce, you may as well use me as needle fodder. PLEASE SHARE WHEREVER POSSIBLE.
What a loon, I know what he eats for breakfast.
Michael Dean Gonzales March 21, 2013 execution stayed by Federal District Judge Robert Junell. This is paranoia, these judges letting these murdering PoS’ live. Well, at least April calendar is filled up nicely.
He hasn’t finished his federal appeals yet, so I was wondering why the hell the county judge issued an execution warrant at all, especially since Gonzalez was re-sentenced to death in 2009, thereby starting the whole shabang all over again.
An execution date for Carroll Joe Parr has been set by a McLennan County judge – 5/7/2013
TDJC hasn’t updated their page to show the addition though.
Carroll Parr added today – 5/7/2013
Vaughn Ross added today – 7/18/2013
Robert Pruett has been given an execution date by a Bee County judge – 5/22/2013
I haven’t seen the execution list this full in a long time; it’s good to see justice being served quickly in the Greatest State of Texas.
It happened in 2000, so it’s been 13 years — could have been faster, Pruitt was in prison for murder when he murdered a correctional officer, I’m sure his fan club will be here wailing about it,
And, let’s hope no stays will be issued by any court for Pruett or any other thug on the 2013 calendar!!!!!
Regarding Swearingen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Y6djRsYko
He keeps returning like a bad
pondexterpenny! The article is the usual claptrap but the comments are interesting:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jmacmillan/100068217/friendship-and-penitence-on-death-row/
The author seemed well pleased with himself…why I haven’t a clue.
The comments were interesting.
Check out the latest dodge being used by the Craig Watkins/Royce West supporters.
McCarthy Seeks Delay In Execution.
Does this proposed bill have a retroactive clause? And if it does how far back? New legislation usually does not. And so I encourage Texans to write the sponsors of this bill to ensure that their proposal only applies to new sentences.
Apparently DA Craig Watkins is asking for a stay of execution, AGAIN.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20130328-da-craig-watkins-seeks-to-delay-execution-of-lancaster-woman-accused-of-killing-neighbor-in-97.ece
If they pass this bill, every dirt bag will file a motion for a hearing. That is what happened in NC. It’s just a back channel way of derailing the DP.
Regardless of the outcome of the bill, I don’t see how Watkins can argue FOR a stay of execution when his argument is based on a BILL that hasn’t even become law yet.
How? He opens his mouth and the words come out.
It is shameful that Watkins is engaging in this conduct as the DA. Perhaps he needs to apply to the Appelate Defenders’ Office for the top post there. Until then, he needs to fulfill his obligation to the present Office. I am thinking that those that elected him need to educate themselves on the responsibilities of District Attorney’s Office – one of which is not to advocate but follow the law as on the books today. Are voters in that county that misguided?
The majority of people in Dallas county that vote for this buffoon have the same skin color, they aren’t concerned with any of the other. Throw in the community organized hispanics and white liberals and there you have it.
And yes, they are all that misguided.
Watkins is currently being investigated by the FBI, along with other troubling issues since he came to office. Hopefully, voters will turn him out next year.
Anybody following the legislative path of this proposed bill? What chances does it have of passing? I would think that when they have to show the effect it would have, it would fail. I sincerely doubt that it will pass or fail by the next execution date. It’s just a humongous waste of time. I’m sure old Hank Skinner is salivating over this.
Watkin’s fall from grace is just around the corner from what I am reading in the article on the FBI investigation. This is the best chance to remove him as I do not think voters will….
Well, regardless of the outcome of the bill, the murdering bitch got another ‘temporary reprieve’ today…… AGAIN. The execution has been rescheduled to June 26.
McCarthy’s new execution date is just two days away. So I’m closing the comments to this thread, as there is now a new post for her second date with a syringe full of pentobarbital.
Here’s the new post: http://urbangrounds.com/2013/04/kimberly-mccarthy-exectuion/