This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Kimberly McCarthy Jan. 29, 2013 for the July 1997 killing of retired college professor Dorothy Booth during a robbery.
Defense lawyers have made a late request to halt the execution of a Texas woman set to become the first female put to death in the U.S. in three years.
The request was sent to a Dallas County judge Tuesday just hours before Kimberly McCarthy's scheduled execution.
University of Texas law professor Maurie Levin argues that McCarthy was the subject of racial discrimination by the jury of 11 whites and only one black that convicted her. McCarthy is black.
She said the same in a letter Friday to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.
Watkins' office calls the effort a "mere delay" tactic because the record doesn't support a valid legal claim for discrimination. McCarthy faces execution in Huntsville for the 1997 beating, stabbing and robbing of a neighbor.
The execution Tuesday of a Texas woman convicted in the gruesome murder of her 71-year-old neighbor will mark the first time in three years that a female inmate has been put to death in the U.S.
Kimberly McCarthy, 51, was sentenced to death for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Investigators say Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas.
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