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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]
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Latino descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas.She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord.
Texas [13] 12 September 23, 2010 Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis: White 41 33 Virginia [14] 13 June 26, 2013 Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy: Black 52 36 Texas [15] 14 February 5, 2014 Suzanne Margaret Basso: White 59 44 [16] 15 September 17, 2014 Lisa Ann Coleman: Black 38 28 [17] 16 September 30, 2015 Kelly Renee Gissendaner: White 47 Georgia [18] 17 ...
A Texas mother convicted of murdering her 2-year-old child has been granted a stay of execution just two days before she was scheduled to die. Melissa Lucio, 53, was sentenced to die by lethal ...
At least 200 people sentenced to die since 1973 were later exonerated, including 18 in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Lucio is one of seven women on death row in Texas ...
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa. Otis McKane: Shooting of Benjamin Marconi. 3 years, 182 days Steven Lawayne Nelson: Murder of Arlington church pastor Clint Dobson.
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row for over a decade after being convicted of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. Lucio's lawyers have ...