From Wikipedia: Karla Faye Tucker
(November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984
and put to death fourteen years later. She was the first woman to be executed
in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863. 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.
After having spent the weekend doing drugs with her
boyfriend Danny Garrett and their friends, Tucker and Garrett entered Jerry
Dean's home around 3 am on Monday 14 June 1983 intending to steal Dean's
motorcycle. James Leibrant, a friend, went with them to Dean's apartment
complex. Leibrant reported that he went looking for Dean's El Camino while
Tucker and Garrett entered the apartment with a set of keys that Tucker claimed
Shawn Dean had lost and Tucker had found.
During the burglary, Tucker and Garrett entered Dean's
bedroom, where Tucker sat on him. In an effort to protect himself, Dean grabbed
Tucker above the elbows, whereupon Garrett intervened. Garrett struck Dean
numerous times in the back of the head with a hammer he found on the floor.
After hitting Dean, Garrett left the room to carry motorcycle parts out of the
apartment. Tucker remained in the bedroom.
The blows Garrett had dealt Dean caused his head to become
unhinged from his neck and his breathing passages to fill with fluid. He began
making a "gurgling" sound characteristic of this type of injury.
Tucker wanted to "stop him from making that noise" and attacked him
with a pickaxe. Garrett then re-entered the room and dealt Dean a final blow in
the chest.
Garrett left the bedroom again so as to continue loading
Dean's motorcycle parts into his Ranchero. Tucker was once again left in the
room and only then noticed a woman who had hidden under the bed covers against
the wall. The woman, Deborah Thornton, had met Dean at a party earlier that
afternoon. Upon discovering Thornton, Tucker grazed her shoulder with the
pickaxe. Thornton and Tucker began to struggle, but Garrett returned and
separated them. Tucker proceeded to hit Thornton repeatedly with the pickaxe
and then embedded the axe in her heart. Tucker would later tell friends and
testify that she experienced intense multiple orgasms with each blow of the
pickaxe.
The next morning, a co-worker of Dean's who had been waiting
for a ride entered the apartment and discovered the victims' bodies.
Investigation led to the arrests of Tucker and Garrett.
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