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Death Row Inmate Moves Closer To Death Chamber  Kimberly
McCarthy (Texas prison photo)  Kimberly McCarthy (Texas prison
photo)  HOUSTON (January 7, 2013)—Texas women’s death row inmate
Kimberly McCarthy, 51, who faces execution this month for the
fatal stabbing and bludgeoning of a retired university
professor, lost an appeal Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.  The
high court, without comment, refused Monday to review McCarthy’s
case.  McCarthy is scheduled to die on Jan. 29 for the July 1997
murder of retired college professor Dorothy Booth, 71, who was
killed during a robbery at the victim's home in Lancaster, about
15 miles south of Dallas.  McCarthy is one of 10 women on
women's death row in Gatesville, but the only one with an
execution date.  At least eight men have executions scheduled in
the coming months.  McCarthy would be the fourth Texas woman put
to death since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment
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