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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.
May 10, 2021 · On June 11, 1983, Tucker and his friends, after consuming high doses of drugs and alcohol, went to rob 27 year old Jerry Lyan Dean. When Dean discovered them, Karla murdered him in cold blood...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death in 1998. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863.
Karla Faye Tucker forced the issue of capital punishment as no one has in years. On June 13, 1983, Tucker and a male accomplice sneaked into a Houston apartment and, for no real reason,...
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 ...
Feb 4, 1998 · Karla Faye Tucker died at around 7:45 PM EST on Tuesday of lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. The Pope did what he could do. The crowd that held a candlelight vigil outside Tucker’s cell...
(CNN) -- Karla Faye Tucker admits that nearly 15 years ago, she helped murder two people with a pickax. And she says that a few months later, she became a Christian. Tucker, 38, now wants the...
