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that came Wednesday evening when the woman who brutally beat and fatally stabbed their loved one was executed for her crime.
• Because Kimberly McCarthy's execution marked the 500th in Texas since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982, it drew increased attention from protesters and the media. But for Booth's loved ones, it was personal.
• "It doesn't matter if this is the 500th execution or not," said Randall Browning, Booth's godson. "We're just thinking about the justice that was promised to us by the state of Texas."
• McCarthy, who was put to death Wednesday evening, was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years.
• McCarthy, 52, was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of Booth, a 71-year-old retired college psychology professor who was McCarthy's neighbor. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife and candelabra at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth's finger to remove the woman's wedding ring.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson's oldest son described the frantic efforts to revive his father to a jury, a scene of tears and agony that ended a dozen idyllic years being raised by one of pop music's superstars.
• Michael Joseph "Prince" Jackson Jr. told the panel Wednesday how he knew there was trouble in the singer's rented mansion when heard screaming upstairs and went into his father's bedroom. His father was laying halfway off the bed, eyes rolled up into the back of his head as his physician tried CPR.
• His sister Paris screamed for her father and Prince, now 16, told jurors that he was crying. On the ride to a hospital, the teenager recounted how he tried to calm the fears of his sister and younger brother by telling them that angels were watching over their father and everything would be fine.
• It wasn't until his father's doctor, Conrad Murray, came out of the emergency room and announced, "Sorry kids, dad's dead," that Prince knew his father was gone.
• "Nothing will ever be the same," the teenager told jurors. He said while his younger brother doesn't totally realize the loss, his sister has had the hardest time of them all and he has had many sleepless nights since his father died four years ago.

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