Karla Faye Tucker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863. She was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death fourteen years later. Because of her gender and widely publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement advocating the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, a movement which included a few foreign government officials.
Convicted of two murders that she carried out, with an accomplice, in Septmeber 1983.
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By age 12, she had a drug problem.
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Her final plea to have her death sentence commuted to life imprisonment was rejected by George W. Bush, who was Texas governor at the time. Bush received much criticism later when it was revealed that when he had been asked what Tucker's final words were, he laughed and said, "Please don't kill me!".
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