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In this article, it tells how karla faye tucker appealed to reduce the sentence received to life
imprisonment. Karla Faye Tucker felt that she had changed and become a new person because
while in prison she found God and became a prison servant in the process of rehabilitating other
perpetrators. He wants his sentence to be a prisoner for life and he will also serve to make
changes by giving a good example to other inmates. This wish by Faye Tucker was also
supported by a spokesman for the founder of the Christian Coalition Pat Robertson. He said that
Tucker must be free to continue to preach the word of God to fellow prisoners. If the appeal
made by Faye Tucker was rejected by the judge, he would be the first woman to be executed in
Texas since the US Civil War.

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) Reject

2 willingness not to punish someone too severely (n) Clemency
3 to plan that something will happen at a particular time (v) Schedule
4 to change a punishment to a less severe one (v) Commute
5 helping someone to live a useful life again after they have been in prison rehabilitation
(n)
6 very seriously (adv) Earnestly
7 someone who starts a business, organization, school, etc. (n) Founder
8 someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison (n) Convict
9 to kill someone, especially legally as a punishment for a serious crime (v) Execute
1 to start doing something again after a pause or interruption (v) Resume
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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 during a break-in.
2. What sentence did she get?
She got a death sentence.
3. Does she claim to be innocent?
No, she doesn’t. She claims that she has changed; she isn’t 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 in prison.
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’s work for the rehabilitation
of young criminals. (helping young criminals have a useful life again)
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 broadcast(ed) 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 (brought back) in the USA in 1976.

C. List all the words in the text that are related to crime and justice.

NOUNS NOUN PHRASES VERBS ADJECTIVES

Court the Court of Criminal Appeals Convict criminal
 Killer lethal injection Execute
clemency the Board of Pardons and Paroles Condemn
Appeal life in prison (sentence) Murder
sentence the death penalty hang
Prison the Supreme Court Poison
break-in capital punishment
criminal
convict
Murder

E. Discussion Questions
1. Do you believe Karla Tucker is a new person now, different from the person she used to
be?
2. Do you think she deserves to be executed?
3. What is another name for capital punishment?
4. Do you support capital punishment?
5. Do you agree that capital punishment is an act of revenge?
6. Do you believe that capital punishment deters (prevents) people from committing a
crime?
7. Would you agree that it is better to spare a criminal than to kill an innocent man?
8. Do you agree that the death penalty should be replaced by life in prison?
9. Does the death penalty exist in your country?
10. Who was the last person to be executed in your country? What crime did he commit and
how did he die?

Answer
1. I cannot say that she has turned into someone new in the sense that she has repented or
will not commit a crime again. Because what is inside each person will only be known to
him and God.
2. Yes, because she himself committed acts that violated human rights, namely by killing
two people at once.
3. Death penalty
4. You could say it is not fully supportive, with other meanings that all depend on the level
of crime committed. if indeed the crime committed is very detrimental to both other
people, society and even the State. Examples of death sentences for drug dealers,
murderers etc.
5. No, because the sentence has nothing to do with personal matters, everything goes
according to the law, if indeed the crimes committed are very heavy, then it is appropriate
to be given a death sentence.
6. Yes, because the death penalty has become a very severe sanction for perpetrators of
crime. The deterrent effect given is so strong that it will prevent other people from
committing a crime.
7. Yes, it is better to reduce criminals than to kill innocent people.
8. The death penalty does not need to be replaced, it continues to run as usual and also a
lifetime law also goes on. If indeed the perpetrator of the crime is given a death sentence
and does not agree or make an appeal, the minimum sentence is a life sentence.
9. Still valid / still in existence
10.