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The ballad of Karla Faye Tucker / Mark Beaver.

"On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. "We were very wired," Tucker later testified, "and we was looking for something to do." Though they later clai...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Beaver, Mark, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:
Tucker, Karla Faye, > 1959-1998.
Tucker, Karla Faye, > 1959-1998
Murderers > Texas > Houston > Biography.
Women murderers > Texas > Houston > Biography.
Murder > Texas > Houston > Case studies.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > Texas.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
Murder
Murderers
Women murderers
Texas
Texas > Houston
Biographies
Case studies
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: all five
  • Chapter 1: Sweet woman of God
  • Chapter 2: Your very own Gethsemane
  • Chapter 3: Looking for something to do
  • Chapter 4: Evangel
  • Chapter 5: Fish and ketchup
  • Chapter 6: Puppet show
  • Chapter 7: And that's the way with Jesus
  • Chapter 8: Well, hell yes
  • Chapter 9: The thing is quickly enough done
  • Chapter 10: Here and happy
  • Chapter 11: Unitil she be dead
  • Chapter 12: The ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
  • Chapter 13: The real Debbie Thornton
  • Chapter 14: This mess that some people call life
  • Chapter 15: I will wait for you
  • Chapter 16: The state of Texas, Office of the Governor, Austin
  • Chapter 17: The son's execution date
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes.

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