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Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy (May 11, 1961 – June 26, 2013) was an American death row inmate and suspected serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of her neighbor, 71-year-old retired college professor Dorothy Booth, in her Lancaster, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth area) home during a robbery. She was a suspect in ...
Declined a last meal; she was instead given a dinner from KFC. [33] [34] Saddam Hussein: Crimes against humanity: Iraq: 2006: Hanging: The Times states that "he refused their offers of cigarettes and a last meal of chicken and shawarma rice." [35] Other sources state Hussein ate his last meal of chicken and rice, and had a cup of hot water with ...
Time on death row Other; Robin Lee Row [45] Row was convicted of the 1992 deaths of her husband and two children. Prosecutors say she set the family home on fire in order to collect insurance money. [45] 31 years and 24 days Robin Row had two other children, one of whom died supposedly of sudden infant death syndrome.
For his last meal, he refused to make a special request, so he was given the standard last meal on Florida’s death row: steak done medium rare, eggs over easy, toast with butter and jelly, milk ...
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff.
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
At least eight death row inmates in the state have committed suicide in the last 20 years, according to prison records consulted by The Texas Tribune. The most recent took place on Jan. 21 , when ...