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Burying Karla Faye Tucker PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002 (message contributor)
BURYING KARLA FAYE TUCKER
In February 1998, the State of Texas prepared to execute Karla Faye Tucker, for her participation in the murder of Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Thornton with a pick ax in 1983.
What brought this story to the News agencies was Karla’s request for a stay from execution. She claimed to have become a born-again Christian while in prison. She wasn’t asking for freedom, simply mercy from the State of Texas in order to spend the rest of her life in prison working her very special ministry to inmates.
What brought this news to National attention was the fact that people from Pope John Paul to Rev. Pat Roberts had also had asked for mercy, at least a month-long stay of execution and a clemency hearing. Un-persuaded by her conversion the prison authorities put Ms. Tucker to death at Huntsville, Texas, prison on Feb. 3, 1983 by means of lethal injection.
What bothers me the most about this story, is that they put the wrong women to death. Now Karla Faye Tucker did commit those murders, she never denied that. What bothers me is that they executed the wrong Karla Faye Tucker, for the young women that had committed those horrendous murders had already died years before when she prayed to Christ to forgive her-- a forgiveness that made itself evident in her transformed life--a transformed life that convinced others to plead for mercy on her behalf. But in Texas there was no mercy.
Unconvinced? -- Then let me conclude with this, when they laid Karla Faye to rest on Thursday afternoon, February 5, 1998, about 40 relatives and friends...
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