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  2. Karla Faye Tucker - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Diane Keaton - Wikipedia

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    In Crossed Over, she played Beverly Lowry, a woman who forms an unusual friendship with the only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker. Keaton in 2009. Keaton's first major hit since 1996 came in 2003's romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Jack Nicholson. Nicholson and Keaton ...

  4. List of women executed in the United States since 1976

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    Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 Texas Lethal injection [6] 5 May 2, 2000 Christina Marie Riggs: 28 26 Arkansas [7] 6 January 11, 2001 Wanda Jean Allen: Black 41 29 Oklahoma [8] 7 May 1, 2001 Marilyn Kay Plantz: White 40 27 ...

  5. Frances Newton - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  7. Woman who caused Emmett Till's death admits to lying in testimony

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    Four days later, two white men -- Donham's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Miliam -- kidnapped Till, beat and shot him in the head. His body was later found in the Tallahatchie river.

  8. Steve Earle - Wikipedia

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    Earle wrote and produced an off-Broadway play about the death of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas. [19] Earle performing in front of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 2003. In the early 2000s, Earle's album Jerusalem expressed his anti-war, anti-death penalty and his other ...

  9. Man Kills His Grandmother and Sends Photos to His Family ...

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    A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday ...