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<p>Hadi Jawad holds up his signs to protest the execution of Kimberly McCarthy on Wednesday outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, where the death chamber is located, in Huntsville, Texas.</p>

<p>Hadi Jawad holds up his signs to protest the execution of Kimberly McCarthy on Wednesday outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, where the death chamber is located, in Huntsville, Texas.</p>

June 27, 2013

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Unpleasant milestone
June 27, 2013 9 p.m.

Unpleasant milestone

Texas carries out its 500th execution since 1982

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.