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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]
A Georgia grand jury indicted three men in November 1970 on charges of six counts of armed robbery each: McKinley Rogers, James Henry Hall and Houston J. Hammond. Only Hammond was in police ...
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 ...
The murders of John Forest "Johnny" Goosey and Stacy Marie Barnett [1] occurred on July 21, 2009, in the West Campus area of Austin, Texas, when a man (James Richard "Ricky" Thompson Jr.), who had two accomplices, shot to death two recent graduates from the University of Texas at Austin who originated from the Greater Houston area.
From May to July 1999, four teenage girls from the Kingwood region of Houston, Texas, robbed four grocery stores and a bakery. [1] These stores were in Harris and Montgomery counties. The girls called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery", [2] and bought recreational drugs and body piercings with their money. [3]
(The Center Square) – Two Houston area law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty on Wednesday as Texas leads the U.S. in officer deaths. On Wednesday morning, Brazoria County ...
The 2006 Harris County, Texas hate crime assault was the beating, torture, and sexual assault of a Latino student, by two non-Latino white youths during the early morning of April 22, 2006, in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas, United States in Greater Houston. The details of the attack led to the publication of the story in ...
Four people were dead and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power in Texas as severe storms slammed the Houston area Thursday night. Two people were killed by fallen trees ...