Karla Faye Tucker

Karla Faye Tucker Brown (November 18, 1959 ? February 3, 1998) Karla Tucker was born and grew up in Houston, Texas. When she was 13, she began traveling with the Allman Brothers Band. In her early 20's she started to hang out with bikers and on June 13, 1983 she entered the home of another biker with Danny Garrett and James Leibrant to steal a motorcycle. During the robbery, two persons were killed and Danny Garrett and Karla Tucker were convicted of their murder.

The prison years

Danny Garrett and Karla Tucker were sentenced to death in 1984, Karla Tucker was at that time 23 years old. In 1993 Danny Garrett died in prison of a liver disease. While on the death row, Karla Tucker become a born-again Christian and married by proxy the prison chaplain Dana Lane Brown whom she was allowed to see during the marriage ceremony only through a Plexiglas barrier. On February 3, 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m.

Related Topics:
Liver disease - Born-again Christian - Lethal injection

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