By: James | January 29, 2013

REUTERS


AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years.The execution is scheduled to be carried out at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas after 6 p.m. local time.


Women are rarely executed in the United States. Only 12 female inmates were put to death since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.The last woman executed was Teresa Lewis in Virginia on Sept. 23, 2010, the information center said."Although women commit about 10 percent of murders, capital cases also require some aggravating factor like rape, robbery, or physical ab...

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