A rare female execution by lethal injection is scheduled for later today in Texas for Kimberly McCarthy, who was convicted of brutally murdering her neighbor in 1997 and cutting off her finger.
Leading Democratic and Republican senators pledged bi-partisan support to help ignite far-reaching legislation through the Senate by the summer, a promising development for advocates of immigration reform.
Kimberly McCarthy will be the 13th female to be executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Lawyers for five of the alleged conspirators of the September 11 attacks on America, have asked a military judge to order that secret prisons at Guantanamo Bay be used as evidence of torture.
