Karla Faye Tucker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKarla Faye Tucker
American murderer
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1959
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 03-Feb-1998
Profession: criminal
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Karla Faye Tucker
- 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.
- She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863.
- She was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and executed by lethal injection after 14 years on death row.
- Due to her gender and widely publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement that advocated the commutation of her sentence to life without parole, a movement that included a few foreign government officials.
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