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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. [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]
In Houston, Texas, Karla Faye Tucker used a pickaxe to murder her friend Shawn's abusive boyfriend, Jerry Dean, and a woman with whom he was having a one-night stand, Deborah Thornton, with help from her boyfriend, Danny Garrett. Upon being sentenced to death, she experienced a spiritual change.
Deborah Thornton; Ken Tillery; Murder of Ken Tillery; J. D. Tippit; Murder of José Campos Torres; Murder of Bridget Townsend; W. Lemuel Walters (lynching victim)
Local WJCL and the Savannah Morning News reported that the Chatham County Coroner's Office has identified the two women as 71-year-old Deborah Hudson and 70-year-old Deloris Hooker.
Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s coworkers at the South Florida Sod Farm. They remembered the couple fondly. “He was an all-American good ol’ boy.
Deborah Meindl, 33-year-old a nursing student and mother of two, was stabbed dozens of times and strangl Judge orders new trial in 1993 murder, but discredits theory that prison escapee was the killer
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
A former Florida caretaker is accused of kidnapping a woman with disabilities after she was moved to a new facility when the caretaker’s group home was shut down, police said.