Karla Faye Tucker was born on 18 November 1959 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was married to Dana Brown. She died on 3 February 1998 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
Her final plea to have her death sentence commuted to life imprisonment was rejected by
George W. Bush, who was Texas governor at the time. Bush received much criticism later when it was revealed that when he had been asked what Tucker's final words were, he laughed and said, "Please don't kill me!".