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The state of Texas executed its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy was put to death Wednesday evening for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor. McCarthy was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years. The 57-year-old McCarthy was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and stabbing death of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth.

Rachel Jeantel, a teenage friend of Trayvon Martin, was forced to admit that she did not write a letter that was sent to the victim's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with him moments before he was shot.

Celebrity food personality Paula Deen, who has faced allegations of racism which has caused much of her empire to crumble, defended herself against what she called "horrible, horrible lies" about her in an nationally televised interview on the "Today" Show.