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	CNN - Karla Faye Tucker's last hours? - Feb. 3, 1998
		Tucker and an accomplice killed two people with a pickax in 1983, but she now says she is a born-again Christian who is not a threat to society.
		Tucker's family and her husband, Dana Brown, who met her in prison, where he worked as a minister to inmates, say she is calm and upbeat.
		Without intervention, Tucker was to be led to the death chamber and strapped on to a gurney at 6:01 p.m.
	www.cnn.com /US/9802/03/tucker (751 words)

	Tucker dies after apologizing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tucker, who confessed her guilt in the slayings of a man and woman in Houston 15 years ago, was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m., some eight minutes after the drugs began flowing through her veins.
		Tucker and her then-lover Daniel Garrett were condemned by a Houston jury in 1984 for the June 1983 slaying of Dean, a 27-year-old former cable installer.
		The motive, Tucker later explained, was to settle a grudge she had against Dean for once parking his leaking motorcycle in her living room and for destroying the only picture she had of herself with her mother.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/chronicle/page1/98/02/04/tucker.html (1283 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karla Faye Tucker Brown (November 18, 1959–February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death.
		Karla Tucker was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
		On February 3, 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker (1048 words)

	Court TV Online - The Karla Faye Tucker Case: Viewers' Views
		The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole rejected Karla Faye Tucker's latest appeal for clemency and a commutation of her sentence from death to life in prison on February 2, 1998, the eve of her scheduled execution by lethal injection.
		Karla Faye Tucker's case has captured national attention and has stirred various opinions regarding the use of the death penalty and the need for mercy in rehabilitation of criminals in our country.
		However, there is something about Karla Faye Tucker's argument that befuddles me. Karla and her team are desperately trying to spare Karla's life because she allegedly "found the Lord." Karla had this to say about death: 'Man can take the physical body but he can't take the soul.
	www.courttv.com /casefiles/tucker/opinions.html (1194 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker
		Tucker's case, including pleas for mercy from Pope John Paul II and TV evangelist Pat Robertson, focused on her metamorphosis from a drug-crazed teen-age prostitute to a soft-spoken young woman who would be content with a life sentence.
		Tucker's bid to get her sentence commuted to life in prison, just as it denied all 76 requests for clemency made by condemned men since 1993.
		Tucker and a companion, Daniel Garrett, were convicted of killing Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, and Deborah Thornton, 32, on June 13, 1983, at Dean's Houston apartment.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits98/tuckerka.html (775 words)

	Death in Texas - The New York Review of Books
		On the night of the murders, Karla Faye's original aim had been to steal Dean's motorcycle, but once she was inside the apartment, the plan for robbery escalated into a frenzied act of double murder.
		Karla Faye said that she wasn't afraid of dying, but she dreaded the long car trip with the guards to Huntsville.
		Here was Karla Faye, a woman who had transformed her life and would have been a source of healing love to guards and prisoners for as long as she lived, yet the iron protocol of retributive justice demanded that she be put to death.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/17670 (3527 words)

	Death of a Woman
		If all goes, as scheduled, Tucker will be led to the death chamber and strapped on to a gumey at 6:01 pm (1.01 pm today NZ time), given a few moments to make a statement, then put to death by a lethal mix of chemicals injected into her arm.
		Tucker and boyfriend Daniel Garrett were convicted for killing Jerry Dean lime and Deborah Thornton with a 3m-long pickaxe during a burglary.
		Yesterday Tucker was flown from death row at a prison in central Texas to an isolation cell at the Goree prison unit for women Texas Departmeent of Criminal Justice spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said she met family members and friends throughout the day and would do so again for a few hours today.
	www.dhushara.com /book/death/deathpen/kft.htm (1174 words)

	ON TARGET with Mr. G -- Al Gore
		For a brief period, Karla Faye Tucker became a conditional object of worship for Robertson and viewers of the “700 Club.” Perhaps her case tempered the reflexive blood cries of some religious fundamentalists and evangelicals.
		Karla Faye was presumably worthy of forgiveness from both god and government because she had embraced religion.
		Karla Faye Tucker was showcased for her belief in Jesus Christ and acceptance of religious doctrines palpable to fundamentalist and evangelicals.
	www.americanatheist.org /columns/ontar2-15-00.html (1373 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker Brown Memorial
		Tucker found and turned on the lights to see Dean lying face down on the mattress, his body "gurgling." Wanting to "stop him from making that noise," Tucker took a nearby pickax and hit him in the back with it four or five times.
		Tucker then discovered that someone was "underneath some covers laying up against the wall by the door." She swung the pickax and hit Deborah Thornton in the shoulder, not being able to discern whether Thornton was a man or woman at that moment.
		Karla Faye Tucker was executed by the state of Texas on February 3rd by lethal injection.
	www.geocities.com /kftucker2007/index.html (2595 words)

	Karla Tucker - ABC
		LISA McREE, Host: As you heard earlier, Karla Faye Tucker's life is now in the hands of the Supreme Court and Texas Governor George Bush.
		Karla Faye Tucker is being punished for the crimes she committed 14 years ago.
		DIANNE CLEMENTS: Well, I would say Karla Faye Tucker was not very chivalrous when she pickaxed two people to death.
	www.prodeathpenalty.com /KFT_ABC.htm (1035 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker: Texas' Controversial Murderess
		Petite, curly-haired, 23-year-old Karla Faye Tucker, when not glassy-eyed under the effects of the multitude of drugs she tended to swallow at one sitting, may have looked like some proud mother's honor student.
		Karla Faye's dislike for the 27-year-old Dean stretched back several months when she first moved here to the Quay Point district in Houston.
		Karla Faye, her eyes following the meager beam of light as Danny ran it past various angles of the room, scorned at the filthiness of the apartment.
	www.crimelibrary.com /classics3/tucker (2843 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker #437
		Tucker was "pretty well on her way" (intoxicated due to the use of alcohol and drugs), but could walk, talk, and carry on a conversation.
		Tucker later related to her sister Kari Dean Garrett [hereinafter referred to as Kari] that when she and Garrett entered the apartment bedroom, she put a pickax to Dean's head and "told him not to move, m______ucker, or you're dead." Dean began begging for his life, and Tucker started to strike him with the pickax.
		Tucker was indicted in Harris County, Texas, for the murder of Jerry Lynn Dean, while in the course of committing and attempting to commit robbery.
	www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/US/tucker437.htm (9003 words)

	Best of the Blogs
		If ever there were a case that should have appealed to the conscience of a “compassionate Christian,” it is that of Karla Faye Tucker, who was executed on February 3, 1998, the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1984 and first woman to be executed in Texas since the 1860s.
		Not only was Bush unmoved by Tucker’s obviously sincere rehabilitation, he was apparently angered by a perceived personal rebuke in an interview she did with Larry King.
		Karla Faye Tucker spoke the truth and it cost her her life.
	www.bestoftheblogs.com /2003_11_26_bestof.html (2069 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller-Times / Karla Faye Tucker takes plea to Texas appeals court
		They said Tucker, 38, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 3, would formally ask the Texas Board of Pardons and paroles to recommend Gov. George W. Bush commute her sentence to life in prison.
		Tucker and her companion, Daniel Garrett, were convicted of killing 27-year-old Jerry Lynn Dean of Houston during a burglary spree.
		Tucker's attorneys have until Jan. 27 to ask that her death sentence be commuted.
	www.coastalbendhealth.com /texas/tex2269.html (738 words)

	National Review Online's Washington Bulletin
		Updated 8/6/99 9:40 PM In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker's] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker.
		Carlson notes that while "the Larry King—Karla Faye Tucker exchange Bush recounted never took place" on television, "Tucker did imply that Bush was succumbing to election-year pressure from pro-death penalty voters.
		Says spokesman Scott McClellan, "In some areas it reflected the governor's personality and in others we felt the writer misread the governor." As for Karla Faye Tucker's execution, "Anyone who knows the governor knows that it was a very emotional and agonizing decision he took very seriously." He's not saying Bush was misquoted.
	www.nationalreview.com /daily/nr080999.html (590 words)

	BBC News \| Karla Faye Tucker \| Tucker speaks out on prime-time TV
		Karla Faye Tucker, 38, is on death row for her part in a gruesome double murder 15 years ago.
		Tucker, who became a Christian while serving her prison sentence, says she is not afraid of the pending execution.
		Tucker now says that she is a different person to the one that committed the crime and believes that her death sentence should be commuted because she is no longer a threat to society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/karla_faye_tucker/48888.stm (412 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1998 \| Karla Faye Tucker \| Portrait of a repentant killer
		Karla Faye Tucker was a wild teenager whose life seemed destined to go off the rails.
		That picture of Karla Faye Tucker could not be more different than the way she says she is now.
		Tucker says she has undergone a religious conversion while awaiting the death penalty in a prison in Gatesville, about 40 miles west of Waco, Texas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/karla_faye_tucker/48816.stm (461 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker Set Free by Linda Strom : Booksamillion.com (0877887756, Paperback)
		Tucker was convicted of the murder in 1984 and sentenced to death.
		Tucker and Garret appealed their convictions, a process that often takes 10 to 20 years, but before Garret could obtain a legal remedy, he received a death sentence of a different type-a fatal liver disease.
		Strom is up-front about her position on Tucker's execution (it took place as scheduled, with Tucker humming softly to herself as the lethal mixture of drugs surged into her veins) and she makes it clear from the beginning that the book is very much a pro Carla Faye Tucker account of her life and death.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0877887756 (822 words)

	(2/11/98) No Redemption in Execution of Karla Faye Tucker
		Karla Faye's redemption was seen by her supporters as a process that would hopefully advertise the cruel folly of the death penalty.
		And so Tucker was helped into the next world by Gov. George W. Bush, declaring that he would leave the decisions of the hands of a higher power, a piece of buck-passing sanctimony I trust the voters will remember, should he ever seek higher office beyond the confines of Texas.
		So praise Karla Faye Tucker and Larry King, who gave Middle America a chance to hear eloquent arguments against the arbitrary and capricious application of the death penalty, which has seen 90 percent of federal death penalty cases in the Clinton era filed against fl and Hispanics.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/9802a/ac-execute.html (856 words)

	In memory of Karla Faye Tucker
		When she was declared dead at 6:45pm CST, Karla Faye Tucker became the first woman executed in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in 1863 and the first in the United States since 1984.
		Tucker said she wanted to live to minister to other prisoners who are as lost as she was.
		Here are excerpts from a lengthy letter Karla Faye Tucker recently sent to Texas Gov. George W. Bush and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, to plead that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison.
	members.tripod.com /NOBILLSMAN/karlatucker.html (1050 words)

	Court TV Online - Karla Faye Tucker
		Tucker's attorneys argued that she has reformed herself and -- while the right to imprison her is not in question -- that she is no longer deserving of a death sentence.
		Tucker, a former prostitute and drug dealer, claims she is a born-again Christian and has repented for her crimes.
		Tucker was convicted along with co-defendant Daniel Garrett of hacking Houston residents Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton to death in Dean's home in 1983.
	www.courttv.com /legaldocs/newsmakers/tucker (318 words)

	People For the American Way - February: Pat Robertson on the Execution of Karla Faye Tucker
		The target of his remarks was the husband of the woman Karla Faye Tucker murdered.
		Tucker was executed Tuesday evening in Texas, 14 years after she killed the woman and her lover in bed with a pickaxe.
		Robertson is a supporter of capital punishment, but had rallied to Tucker's defense on grounds that she had been born again after committing after her crime.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3942 (515 words)

	Karla's Execution Day
		Karla was to be the first woman executed in Texas since 1863, when Chipita Rodriguez was hanged for killing a horse trader, oddly enough, with an axe.
		Karla was allowed to choose a maximum of five individuals to witness her death in the "Family Room." She chose her husband Dana Brown, whom she had met while he visited her as a prison ministry worker and later married, by proxy, in 1995.
		Karla chose to be executed wearing a clean white prison uniform.
	members.tripod.com /Mia_3/kTucker.html (1268 words)

	Karla Faye Tucker
		Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas in over 100 years, became an evangelist for Christ during her 14-year imprisonment on Death Row.
		This is the story of Karla’s spiritual journey, the women and men she reached, and the God who offers redemption and hope to the hardest of hearts.
		Linda Strom was Karla’s spiritual advisor and close friend for the last 11 years that Karla was on Death Row.
	www.mcintoshwriting.com /portliferow/Karla.htm (119 words)

	ACI: Karla Faye Tucker
		For a Governor to commute Karla Tucker's death sentence he must be able to justify in his conscience that Karla Tucker living will unquestionably have a value to society greater than Karla Tucker dead.
		Karla Tucker's story is the story of the meanest and the most troubled of our society's teen and young people when she committed her crime.
		If this is a truth undeniable as seen in the life now lived by Karla Tucker then it behoves humankind to grant Karla another life to atone for the wrong she did to society and to herself in the drugged, animal-like existence she was enduring at the time of her deed.
	web.umr.edu /~assade/ACI/kft.html (383 words)

	After This One, How About That One?
		Somewhere on death row, in Texas or elsewhere, there has to be another woman like Karla Faye Tucker, another woman who committed a horrible crime and later found her way to God.
		Karla Faye Tucker wasn't born again the day they threw her into her jail cell, was she?
		If they'd executed Karla Faye Tucker as soon as they convicted her, she would never have had the opportunity to grow into the person you and your colleagues were so ready to fight for.
	www.yesrick.com /2698.htm (579 words)

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