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by William Bigelow 26 Jun 2013 423post a comment
In Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday, anti-death penalty groups are planning a protest as the state is about to execute its 500th person. Gloria Rubac, with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement in Houston, said sententiously, "The whole world is looking at Texas."
Of course, the details of what the murderess did seem to be rather unimportant to those protesting the death penalty.
Kimberly McCarthy, who is to be given a lethal injection Wednesday, asked retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth for a cup of sugar in 1997. Then McCarthy attacked Booth with a butcher’s knife, stabbed her to death, and even cut off her finger to remove her wedding ring. She stole Booth's Mercedes, drove to Dallas, pawned Booth’s wedding ring for $200 and bought crack cocaine.
Blood DNA evidence has connected McCarthy to two other murders in 1998: 81-year-old Maggie Harding, stabbed and beaten with a meat tenderizer, and 85-year-old Jettie Lucas, savaged with a claw hammer and stabbed.
McCarthy also is the former wife of Aaron Michaels, founder of the New Black Panther Party.
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It is too late to bring back the dead, and considering their advaced age and feeble condition, McCarthy acted in a manner fitting the death penalty. The difference is that she dies in comfort and without fear, while her defenseless victims suffered both excruciating pain and prolonged terror before they died.
Leftists also demand that we permit the use of late third trimester abortion -- the most painful death known to medicine, by far.
I wonder if leftists see the contradiction in their "thinking."
