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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. [3]
May 10, 2021 · Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. On June 11, 1983, Tucker and his friends, after consuming high doses of drugs and alcohol, went to rob...
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Apr 12, 2018 · Karla Faye Tucker was executed via lethal injection on February 3, 1998, becoming the first woman to be executed in Texas since 1863. After learning about Karla Faye Tucker, read the story of Hans Schmidt, the only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States .
Karla Faye Tucker was executed by lethal injection tonight, gasping and coughing twice before she was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m. Before she was executed, she smiled, asked forgiveness from her victim’s husband and thanked her family, saying “I love you all very much.”
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 24, 2024 · Karla Faye Tucker was put to death by lethal injection in 1998 for the 1983 murder of two people with a pick axe. Her final meal was oddly heath-conscious.
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(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.
