A Woman Sentenced to Pay the Ultimate Price for Crime
Phoebe Hoban reviews Steve Earle play Karla, starring Jodie Markell; photo (M)
By Phoebe Hoban
Phoebe Hoban reviews Steve Earle play Karla, starring Jodie Markell; photo (M)
By Phoebe Hoban
Profile of and interview with Steve Earle, country singer, writer, radio host and former drug addict; Earle, who is also death-penalty opponent, comments on his play, Karla, about Karla Faye Tucker, murderer who was executed in Texas in 1998, which is being performed at Culture Project in Manhattan; photos (M)
By Bruce Weber
Texas Gov George Bush will decide fate of Larry Keith Robison, mentally ill death row inmate who murdered five people but whose cause is being championed by mental health advocates who say case illustrates state's inadequate services for mentally ill people; with Bush campaigning for Republican Presidential nomination as 'compassionate conservative,' case is attracting attention--particularly in light of comments attributed to him in recent magazine interview in which he seemed to mock clemency pleas of death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker, who was executed in 1998; Robison, whose execution by lethal injection is scheduled for August 17, could become 99th person executed since Bush took office in 1995--most executions under any Texas governor since Supreme Court reinstated death penalty; chart shows number of executions in Texas since 1982 (M)
By Jim Yardley
Review of legal debate over standards for declaring convicted murderer too mentally deficient to be executed; extremely unusual hearing in California is now considering Horace Kelly, who cliams he is too insane to die for murdering boy in 1984; his case and that of Karla Faye Tucker, who was executed in Texas, raise questions about ethics of capital punishment of people whose mental state has changed since they were sentenced; photos (M)
By Sam Howe Verhovek
University of Texas and Scripps Howard news organization poll finds support for capital punishment in Texas has fallen from 85 percent to 68 percent in wake of debate over execution of Karla Faye Tucker (S)
By B. Drummond Ayres
Execution of Karla Fay Tucker in Texas, which sparked inordinate interest and opposition to death penalty, has not generated much public attention or soul-searching among opponents in Florida, where Judias Buenoano, who has been on death row since 1985, is next woman scheduled for execution; photo (M)
By Mireya Navarro
Karla Faye Tucker, two hours before she was put to death in Texas this week, handed state's chief prison official three-page handwritten 'Rehabilitation Plan for Inmates,' in which she proposed that prisoners be paid for their work with money that they would give back to state for their food, housing and medical care; she contended that having everything given to inmates free and told how to do everything tends to make people irresponsible and dependent (M)
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Profiles of 43 women currently on death row in prisons across US; recent execution of Karla Faye Tucker in Texas discussed; photos (M)
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Opponents of capital punishment hope controversy over Texas execution of Karla Faye Tucker has helped change dynamics of nation's continuing debate over death penalty; supporters of death penalty say execution reflects willingness to carry out death penalty in nation where only fraction of those condemned are executed; Tucker was far different from most condemned prisoners, managing to humanize herself before nation in barrage of recent television interviews; photo (M)
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Case of Karla Faye Tucker, woman executed in Texas for murder, underscores how nearly impossible it is for death row inmates to win clemency; Supreme Court has never directly spoken about whether state has to offer basic due process in discretionary clemency proceedings; clemency proceedings vary greatly from among states (M)
By Jan Hoffman
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