Karla Faye Tucker killed two people in 1983. Tucker confessed to the crime, and was executed in 1998. The interesting thing about Tucker’s case, however, is that she claimed to have turned her life around while in prison. She was no longer using drugs, had found religion, and had even gotten married. But none of this was enough to change her sentencing from execution to life in prison. The point of incarceration is to rehabilitate criminals, and anyone could look at Tucker’s case and see a big change from her drug using and murderous lifestyle, and the more stable and positive lifestyle she had in her later years. Unfortunately, even though she was able to find the right path, that does not cancel out the fact that she murdered two people. This is why Tucker’s execution was justified. …show more content…
Thornton has a valid point. While it is nice that Tucker was able to change, she was still a murder who killed two innocent people just for fun. Anyone who says they have received “sexual gratification” from murdering people should not then have their life saved just because they have found God (Clarkprosecutor). Being a good person or having religious faith didn’t save Tucker’s victims, so it should not be a factor in trying to save her from the death penalty. If Tucker had not been executed, it would not have been fair to the victims’ families that their loved ones were taken from them by a woman claimed to have found sexual gratification while killing people, and yet Tucker was still allowed to