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Wednesday • Febmar
Activists gather to protest executii
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Rachel
King, holding a sign that read “Exe
cution is Not the Solution,” made
the trip from Philadelphia to the
doorstep of Texas death row be
cause she says she felt compassion
for Karla Faye Tucker.
“We do feel a connection with
Karla Tucker because she’s a
woman,” said King, a Temple Uni
versity law professor. “I guess we
can more easily identify with her
fate and her life. Texas has been
killing men without thinking about
it. Now they’re going to start killing
women without thinking about it.”
Baltimore resident Stephanie
Gibson sat next to King holding a
sign that read: “I Oppose the Death
Penalty. Don’t Kill for Me.” The
Tucker case has increased aware
ness of the death penalty, giving ac
tivists a chance to seize the spot
light, Gibson said.
“Anything that raises awareness
is a good thing, but it’s a horrible
price,” she said.
Protesters gathered at an inter
section on the corner of the
Huntsville unit Tuesday as Texas
executed its first female inmate
since 1863.
Several hundred demonstrators,
one dressed in an executioner’s
robe and clutching a Bible, crowd
ed the intersection but were still
outnumbered by the hordes of re
porters on the grounds of the
prison.
TV trucks packed a parking lot
usually reserved for prison em
ployees as camera and micro
phone-toting reporters swarmed
on the demonstrators’ intersec
tion or on a lawn across the street
from the prison.
The protesters were about 200
feet from the front door of the long
brick building, which resembles a
schoolhouse, except for the bars on
the window.
When the news reached the
crowd that TUcker had been execut
ed, a cheer rose from death penalty
advocates as some sang "Na Na Na
Na...Say Goodbye.”
“I think it was a step for justice,”
said Ran Nelson of Waco, who said
he was cheering with everyone else.
Lisa Jackson, who opposes the
death penalty and traveled from
Michigan, was disheartened by the
boisterous reaction.
“I think God is sovereign,” she
said. “He gives life and he takes life.”
“This is hateful,” she said of the
cheering and taunting.
Some death penalty abolitionists
made longer trips than others.
“We want Texas to know that
they can’t execute people any
more,” said Alberta Rocca, who
i raveled from Romewi
nization “NesunotoccLj
“1 lands off Cain.”
Rocca said Italians^
ropeans are outragec.
hear about the numt- '
executed in the United:
"We are very ashamT
cause the United States!
concerned about hui
she said.
Actually, more thi
people called theTesj
ment of Criminal lust
to talk to Tucker. Calls!
as far away as Iraq,!i|
land and Sweden.
"They’re disappoic
not doing anythingtol
said a corrections de]
rotary who did notw<
tilled. “They can’tund!
we’re allowing thist
ried out.”
Viewpoints vary on
Tucker’s execution
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The following are
quotes concerning the execution of Karla Faye
Tucker:
• Karla Faye Tucker
“I would like to say to all of you — the Thorn
ton family and Jerry Dean’s family — that I am
so sorry. I hope God will give you peace with
this. ... I am going to be face to face with Je
sus now. I love all of you very much. I will see
you all when you get there. I will wait for you.”
• Gov. George W. Bush:
“Like many touched by this case, I have
sought guidance through prayer. I have con
cluded judgment about the heart and soul of
an individual on death row are best left to a
higher authority. May God bless Karla Faye
Tucker and God bless her victims and their
families.”
• Richard Thornton, husband of victim Debo
rah Thornton:
“I want to say to every victim in the world:
demand this (execution). Don’t ask for it, de
mand this. This is your right. The life of a mur
derer should never be glorifed. You are not
here to remember my wife. Y’all are here to cel
ebrate a murderer, a pickax murderer. My reli
gion says to forgive. Turn a cheek. I still can
not do it. I’ve heard her words. I don’t think
they are heartfelt. I don’t believe her conver
sion. I don’t believe her Christianity. This day
belongs to Deborah Ruth Davis Thornton. ...
Her killer has been sent to the place that we’re
ail going to go sometime, someplace my wife
already is. She will deal with Karla Faye Tuck
er. I promise you, it won’t be pretty.”
•Lisa Jackson, who opposes the death penal
ty and traveled from Michigan:
“I think God is sovereign. He gives life and
he takes life. This (the cheering and taunting)
is hateful.”
• Pat Robertson, a television evangelist who
normally is a death penalty supporter::
“This thing is vengeance. It makes no
sense. This is not the same woman who com
mitted those crimes.”
► A look at some key events in Tucker's case
1983
June 13 —The bodies of Deborah Ruth Davis Thornton, 32, and Jerry Lynn Dean, 26,;
bedroom of Dean’s apartment in northwest Houston. Police find the murder weapon-
— embedded in Thornton’s chest. Valuables are left untouched but Dean’s 1974 pickupisE
July 20 — Karla Faye Tucker, 23, and Daniel R. Garrett, 37, are arrested and chargd I
murder in the deaths. Detective J.C. Mosier said the murders apparently resulted fromaij
ing grudge between Tucker and Dean.
Dec. 6 — Tucker attends drug counseling and religious sessions in jail for thefirstt
1984
April 19 — Tucker is found guilty of capital murder in Dean’s death.
April 25 — Tucker, who testified during the punishment phase of her trial thatev ghr
axed would not be sufficient to atone for her crime, is sentenced to death by lethal inj- ,jd |J
Nov. 2 — A second capital murder charge lodged against Tucker in Thornton’s deal,
at the recommendation of prosecutors.
Nov. 20 — Garrett is convicted of capital murder. Nine days later, he is sentenced tc:l
1992
Feb. 27 — State District Judge Pat Lykos rejects Tucker’s request for an evidentiary!!;
May 29 — Judge Lykos sets Tucker’s execution for June 30. i khki
June 22 — Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stays Tlicker’s execution and orders evil e g i£
ing into claims by co-defendant James Leibrant, who was charged with burglary in thi n
perjureci himself while testifying in Tucker’s trial.
1993
Jan. 13 — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reverses Garrett’s capital murderc is url
question about proper jury selection and orders a new trial. term
June 14 — Garrett dies at a Houston hospital of cirrhosis of the liver and internal bit ling]
day after the 10th anniversary of the murders. sen
Oct. 21 — Even though a Court of Appeals stay remains in effect, Judge Lykos sets; recrl
cution date forTucker — a move, observers believe, is meant to remind the higher cor omc
of the appeal, now more than a year old. file
Nov. 9 — The Texas Court of Appeals reinstates Tdcker’s indefinite stay of executio; ;sfn|
1995 ipec
Jan. 30 — Court of Criminal Appeals lifts the stay of execution and denies all relieUo 1
June 25 — In a proxy ceremony off the prison grounds, Tucker weds prison ministry"
Brown. Brown later visits the Gatesville prison where his bride is held, driving an autoi
a honeymoon trip. Prison officials — as per policy — deny them a contact visit.
1997
Dec. 8 —The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Tucker’s request to review her case.
Dec. 18 — State District Judge Debbie Stricklin sets Tucker’s execution for Feb. 3, lfe|
1998
Jan. 20—Attorneys forTucker ask the Court of Criminal Appeals to postpone herexec
them time to challenge the state's clemency procedure.
Jan. 22 — Tucker officially asks the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to lessen heif-J
to life imprisonment and to delay her execution. She also asks Gov. George W. Bush top
execution 30 days.
Jan. 28 — Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies Tucker’s appeal.
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