A death row inmate with an elderly neighbor uttered chilling last words before being executed.
In 2013, Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th death row inmate in Texas to be executed by lethal injection.
The 52-year-old serial killer suspect was sentenced to death in 1997 after being sentenced to Dorothy Booth.
* is believed to have been behind the case of two other elderly women**, but she has never been tried for these crimes.
McCarthy insisted until the end that she was innocent - she insisted that she had been framed for killing Dorothy.
The one-year-old mother even successfully appealed her sentence in 2002, only to be retried later that year and put on death row.
On July 21, 1997, McCarthy went to a neighbor's house under the pretext of borrowing sugar, and ** unsuspecting neighbor.
McCarthy killed and robbed Dorothy Booth in 1997.
Allegedly, she called Dorothy to remind her of her arrival, but prosecutors said her real intention was to rob the pensioner.
* Addicted to cocaine as an adult and needed money to quit drugs.
McCarthy stabbed her neighbor five times with a butcher's knife, beat her with a candlestick, and then horribly cut off her fingers and stole her diamond wedding ring.
The former professional ** teacher then snatched Dorothy's purse and her Mercedes.
She then pawned the diamond ring to buy cocaine and used the victim's credit card to go on a spending spree at a liquor store. She also took Dorothy's driver's license.
Shortly after the incident**, McCarthy found her DNA on the murder weapon.
In 1998, a Dallas County jury convicted her of **.
* Death by lethal injection.
But it is possible that she escaped the death penalty, as in 2012 she twice filed last-minute legal appeals for a stay of execution.
Her lawyer claims that her trial was marred by racial discrimination and that her ** was inadequate.
McCarthy's lawyer, Maurie Levin, also said the jury was biased because the prosecution used a mandatory strike to stop potential non-white jurors.
But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not hear the case, and McCarthy's death sentence was eventually executed.
On June 26, 2013, she uttered her last words before being executed by lethal injection.
*Say:"It's not a loss, it's a victory.
You know I'm going to **. I want to go home and be with Jesus. Keep the faith. I love you and thank you, pastor"