Sunday, January 27, 2013

Execution Watch: Kimberly McCarthy Jan. 29

Kimberly McCarthy faces execution Tuesday

Tuesday is Jan. 29. It's also the day Texas plans to execute KIMBERLY McCARTHY, a former crack addict who was sentenced to death for the 1997 slaying of an elderly woman during a home robbery near Dallas.
 
Unless a stay is issued, Execution Watch will broadcast live coverage of McCarthy's execution, starting at 6 p.m. Central Time, on KPFT FM Houston 90.1 HD3 and online at http://executionwatch > Listen.
 
McCarthy, 51, is the former wife of New Black Panther Party founder Aaron Michaels, with whom she has a son. 
 
She is one of 10 women on Texas death row. Since the date was announced Sept. 12, she has been the only one with a scheduled execution. 
 
Three of the nearly 500 people Texas has put to death in the modern era have been women. Further background is at  www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on McCarthy.

SHOW LINEUP
Host: RAY HILL, an ex-convict and activist who founded -- and hosted for 30 years -- The Prison Show on KPFT. His HMS radio show broadcasts each Wednesday at 2 p.m.: hmsnetradio.org.

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials from both the prosecution and defense tables. Joining him will be Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS and MICHAEL GILLESPIE.

Featured Interview: T.B.A.;  see the Execution Watch Facebook page for updates on the interview.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, founder and leader, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, abolitionmovement.org.

Reporter, Vigil, Houston: DAVE ATWOOD, founder and former board member, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, ww.tcadp.org.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
On Feb. 21, Texas plans to kill CARL HENRY BLUE. If it does, Execution Watch will broadcast.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
STUDIO ENGINEERS: Doyle, Mike Lewis.
THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster