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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 2002, a crime spree involving the murders of two women and one teenage girl occurred in the East End area of Houston, Texas. [1] The three perpetrators were two adult men and one teenage boy: Edgardo Rafael Cubas Matamoros [2] (born February 7, 1979), [3] a Honduran citizen; [4] Walter Alexander Sorto (born August 10, 1977), [5] a Salvadoran citizen; [4] and Eduardo Navarro, [3] a 15-year ...
The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to ...
Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said. Johan Jose ...
Olympia police were dispatched about 4:25 a.m. to the 100 block of Lilly Road Northeast, Lt. Paul Lower said Tuesday. Around that time, the suspect had been arguing with his wife when police say ...
Father, husband of bride killed on wedding night explode with emotion — as drunk driver gets 25 years: ‘For the rest of my life, I’m gonna hate you’ Alex Oliveira December 2, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Ontario County woman Rose Chase, who in 2012 killed husband Adam, dismembered and destroyed his body, and lied about his whereabouts for months afterwards. 225 10
The execution was carried out as scheduled on September 14, 2005, by lethal injection. Newton spent a little more than 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 years on death row before her execution, and was the third woman executed in Texas since the resumption of capital punishment in the state in 1982. The first and second were Karla Faye Tucker and Betty Lou Beets.