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APPEAL FILED FOR KIMBERLY McCARTHY
DALLAS – Attorneys for Kimberly McCarthy filed an appeal Wednesday designed to block her execution.
The motion was made in the 292nd District Court of Dallas County, the site of McCarthy’s original trial on a charge of murdering her neighbor.
If McCarthy does not succeed in her appeals, she is slated to be executed Wednesday..
june 19 2013 source : http://www.kwtx.com
The lawyer for former nursing home therapist Kimberly McCarthy, 52, who’s scheduled to die next week for the murder of an elderly neighbor, has filed an appeal in an effort to block the execution.
McCarthy, who’s on women’s death row in Gatesville, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next Wednesday.
If she does, she would be the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010 and the 500th prisoner executed in Texas since the death penalty resumed in 1982.
She was sentenced to die for the fatal stabbing, beating and robbery of her 71-year-old neighbor, retired college professor Dorothy Booth, in 1997.
McCarthy’s state court appeal contends black jurors were improperly excluded from her trial, and that her lawyers should have challenged the exclusions.
Lawyer Maurie Levin says the punishment should be stopped in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision backing another Texas prisoner who raised similar arguments about attorney competence.
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