Before Death, Tucker Urged Jail Reforms
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Shortly before she was executed by lethal injection, Karla Faye Tucker told state officials that inmates should have to earn their keep in prison so they could become better, more responsible people. Tucker, in a three-page handwritten letter to state Prison Board Chairman Allan Polunsky, said the current system, in which prisoners get everything on a “silver platter,” encourages indolence, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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