texas to execute 500th person

[the next guy]

Texas poised to execute 500th prisoner as lawyers fight to save her life | World news | guardian.co.uk

Lawyers in Texas are fighting to save the life of a female prisoner scheduled to become the 500th person to be executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated in America in 1976.

Barring a last-minute stay, Kimberly McCarthy, 52, will face lethal injection next Wednesday for the 1997 murder of her neighbour. Should the execution be carried out, she would be the 500th person put to death by Texas, a state that has shown more enthusiasm in modern times for capital punishment than any other.

 

[DStyles]

She murdered someone


But damn, 500th person to be executed

Does she at least get a commemorative price

 

[the next guy]

@VictorVonDoom @Kool G Trap @The Real

 

[the next guy]

@ltheghost

 

[The Real]

Very sad. While she most probably did murder the victim, the fact remains that she was a serious crack addict living in poverty at the time, and did it to fund her addiction. I'm against the death penalty in general, but this is also a case where you can see our failed drug policy/lack of rehabilitative impetus at work. Drug addicts should be treated like sick people, not just like criminals.

 

[Ski Mask]

I wonder how many out of those 500 were innocent?

 

[Fillerguy]

She murdered someone


But damn, 500th person to be executed

Does she at least get a commemorative price

strawberry flavored injection

 

[Malta]

500 in 37 years? In China they call that Monday.

 

[Young_and_Reckless]

Don't Mess With Texas

 

[ugksam]

she's ugly

 

[CJ]

@ them dropping confetti over her as she sits strapped in the seat.

 

[Blackking]

I don't agree w the dead penalty for woman.. of for black people in Texas.

She was probably a horrible person and a waste of space anyway... but I don't see how we can justify the death penalty for women.

 

[Malta]

@ them dropping confetti over her as she sits strapped in the seat.

.............I didn't want to laugh but.....

 

[ltheghost]

Texas.... damn 500!? shyt can't they let her go? I mean damn! Texas...That's all I have to say. When it comes to executing a mothafukka, you think about Texas!

 

[the next guy]

I don't agree w the dead penalty for woman.. of for black people in Texas.

She was probably a horrible person and a waste of space anyway... but I don't see how we can justify the death penalty for women.

expand on this, I'm interested