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Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863.
Karla was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville by lethal injection on Tuesday, February 3, 1998 at 6:45 p.m. Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to...
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Oct 27, 2022 · KPRC 2 Investigates takes you into the Harris County archives to examine the case of Karla Faye Tucker, the Houston woman executed for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary in...
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Feb 3, 2016 · Convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker at Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Jan. 21, 1986. John Van Beekum/Houston Chronicle. Now, Thornton, had had a fight with her husband and met Dean at a...
Feb 4, 1998 · Karla Faye Tucker is executed by lethal injection, first woman executed in Texas since Civil War; was convicted in 1983 murders of Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Thornton; case attracted ...
Jan 30, 1998 · Karla Faye Tucker was only 23 when she committed a crime that shocked America. A prostitute and drug addict, Tucker and her then-boyfriend, Daniel Ryan Garrett, 38, bludgeoned two people to...
Aug 9, 1992 · The photograph, printed in the Houston Chronicle, was of Karla Faye Tucker, a 26-year-old Death Row inmate in the Texas prison system. Tucker had received her death sentence in 1983, a few...
Jan 30, 1998 · Both Tucker and Garrett were found guilty of first-degree murder. Garrett's conviction was later overturned; he died in prison awaiting a new trial in 1993. A new life. That picture of Karla...
