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    Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murdering two people with a pickax during a 1983 break-in in Texas. She was sentenced to death but has since claimed she found God and changed, asking to have her sentence commuted to life in prison so she can spend her life rehabilitating young criminals. Her request was rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeals and she is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, though her last interview will air on Christian television the day of her execution wherein she insists she is no longer the person who committed that crime.

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    Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murdering two people with a pickax during a 1983 break-in in Texas. She was sentenced to death but has since claimed she found God and changed, asking to have her sentence commuted to life in prison so she can spend her life rehabilitating young criminals. Her request was rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeals and she is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, though her last interview will air on Christian television the day of her execution wherein she insists she is no longer the person who committed that crime.

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    Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murdering two people with a pickax during a 1983 break-in in Texas. She was sentenced to death but has since claimed she found God and changed, asking to have her sentence commuted to life in prison so she can spend her life rehabilitating young criminals. Her request was rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeals and she is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, though her last interview will air on Christian television the day of her execution wherein she insists she is no longer the person who committed that crime.

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    Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murdering two people with a pickax during a 1983 break-in in Texas. She was sentenced to death but has since claimed she found God and changed, asking to have her sentence commuted to life in prison so she can spend her life rehabilitating young criminals. Her request was rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeals and she is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, though her last interview will air on Christian television the day of her execution wherein she insists she is no longer the person who committed that crime.

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    A USTIN, Texas (AP) – The state’s

    highest criminal court rejected


    convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker’s
    doing his work for the rehabilitation
    of young criminals.
    the death penalty, has said Ms
    Tucker should be spared to continue
    preaching the word of the Lord to
    §4 In interviews organized by her
    bid for clemency, to keep from prison minister-husband, Dana fellow convicts. The interview was
    becoming the first woman executed Brown, she insists she’s a new conducted on Tuesday.
    in Texas since the US Civil War. The person, content to spend her life in §6 “She feels very strongly about
    Court of Criminal Appeals on prison doing God’s work and setting what the Lord has done to change
    Wednesday turned aside her an example for young people. “We her life,” said Robertson’s
    argument that the state’s clemency all have the ability, after we’ve done spokeswoman, Patty Silverman.
    process is unconstitutional. something horrible, to make a “She wanted to be sure that the
    §2 Ms Tucker, who is scheduled to change for the good,” Ms Tucker, message of what God did in her life
    die Tuesday by lethal injection, has 38, said earnestly on CBS television. got out.”
    asked the board of Pardons and “I’m so far removed from the person §7 Texas last executed a woman
    Paroles to commute her sentence to I used to be out there. For me, in 1863, when Chipita Rodriguez was
    life in prison. The board can deny what’s weird is thinking back on hanged for the murder of a horse
    her request or forward a some of the things I used to do, and trader. The only woman executed in
    recommendation to Gov. George W. thinking, ‘I did that?’” the United States since the Supreme
    Bush. §5 A spokeswoman for Christian Court allowed capital punishment to
    §3 Ms Tucker, 38, was condemned Coalition founder Pat Robertson said resume in 1976 was Velma Barfield.
    for murdering a man and woman Wednesday his 700 Club television She died by injection in North
    with a pickax during a 1983 break-in. program will broadcast the last Carolina in 1984 for poisoning her
    She has since insisted she found God prison interview with Ms Tucker on boyfriend.
    behind bars and would be content the day she’s scheduled to be
    spending the rest of her life in prison executed. Robertson, who supports (taken from Athens News, Jan 30th, 1998)

    A. Find a word or expression in the text which has a similar meaning to the following.
    1 to refuse to accept a request (v) (§1) ………Reject……
    2 willingness not to punish someone too severely (n) (§1) ………Clemency………………
    3 to plan that something will happen at a particular time (v) (§2) ………Schedule……………
    4 to change a punishment to a less severe one (v) (§2) ………Commute………………
    5 helping someone to live a useful life again after they have been in prison (n) (§3) ………Rehabilitation……
    6 very seriously (adv) (§4) ………Earnestly…………
    7 someone who starts a business, organization, school, etc. (n) (§5) ………founder…………………
    8 someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison (n) (§5) ………Convict…………………
    9 to kill someone, especially legally as a punishment for a serious crime (v) (§5,7) ………Execute…………………
    10 to start doing something again after a pause or interruption (v) (§7) ………Resume………………

    B. Read the article and answer the following questions.


    1. What crime did Karla Tucker commit?
    …She murdered a man and a woman with a pickax a break-in.………………………………………………………………
    2. What sentence did she get?
    …She got a death sentence.……………………………………………………………………………………
    3. Does she claim to be innocent?
    No, she does not. She claims that she has changed. She is not the person she used to be.……………………………
    4. What has she asked the Board of Pardons and Paroles?
    She has asked them to change her death sentence into life prison.………………………………………………………
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    5. How does she say she is going to spend her life if her request is granted?
    She says she is going to spend her life in prison doing God is work for the rehabilitation of young criminals.…
    6. Is she married?
    …Yes, she is married to Dana Brown, the prison minister.…………………………………………………
    7. When will her last interview be broadcast(ed) on TV?
    It will be broadcasted on the day of her execution.………………………………………………………………………
    8. How is she going to be executed?
    She is going to be executed by lethal injection.………………………………………………………………………
    9. How was Chipita Rodriguez put to death?
    …She was hanged.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    10. When was capital punishment resumed in the United States?
    …Capital punishment was resumed in the USA in 1976.…………………………………………………………………

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