The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Beaver, Mark
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Beaver, Mark

The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister...
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Author: Mark Beaver
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The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Beaver, Mark

The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

$49.83
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Beaver, Mark

The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

$49.83
Author: Mark Beaver
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people--one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.

Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who'd committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelism--Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among them--were urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver's father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush.

Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America's evangelical community. It's a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It's also a deeply personal reflection on how a father's request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.

Author: Mark Beaver
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 08/10/2023
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN: 9781496850324

About the Author
Mark Beaver is author of Suburban Gospel, a memoir about growing up in the 1980s Bible Belt. His prose has appeared in North American Review, Crazyhorse, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.


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