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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 ...
[14] On February 19, 2009, the Texas Third Court of Appeals ordered re-sentencing. [18] The court ruled that her sentencing hearing was unfair and Hall was released on bond. [19] In 2010, a jury in Travis County, Texas, resentenced Hall to the maximum possible sentence, including prison and $14,000 ($19561.12 when adjusted for inflation) in ...
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 15 February 2025.
Texas' highest criminal court on April 25, 2022, delayed the execution of Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die April 27, 2022. [71] Taylor Rene Parker Parker was convicted for the October 2020 slaying of her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
A woman who pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated robbery after saying the man who pulled the trigger was sex trafficking her has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to a news ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2010 and 2019. All of the 120 people (117 males and 3 females) during this period were convicted of murder and executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .