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Faye TuckerKarla Faye Tucker Karla Faye Tucker American murderer (1959–1998) 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.[2] 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] She was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and executed by lethal injection after 14 years on death row.[4] Due to her gender and widely publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement that advocated the commutation of her sentence to life without parole, a movement that included… (Source: Wikipedia)
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