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Another Special Life in Christ
These testimony lives are not stories of "role models". Jesus is the
role model!
These are lives wonderfully touched & changed by Jesus!
How bad could a cute little thing
be?
Taught by her mother to "roll it right" and stoned
from age 8 to her imprisonment in 1983 at age 23, she mainlined heroin at age 10. This cute
Houston girl, who considered herself ugly by comparison to her sisters, and Daniel Garrett
visited Jerry Lynn Dean with the intent to steal Jerry's motorcycle. Daniel hit Jerry in the
head with a hammer, and Karla Faye grabbed a 3-foot pickax and rained blow after blow on
Jerry. She later claimed to police that she had an orgasm each time over 20 blows slammed
into Jerry.
She also killed his friend Deborah Thornton, leaving the ax embedded in her
chest. She bragged that the killings proved she, "...could run with the big boys." In 1984,
while in prison, along came a former "druggie", Karen Gill, from the Family Life Training
Center southwest of Houston. After hearing Karen's story of transformation by accepting
Jesus, Karla Faye came forward, accepted Jesus as her lord and savior and proved to become a
born-again believer.
She worked among prisoners; and, in late 1997 on death row, set to
become only the second female subject of the death penalty in Texas since 1863, she said, "I
want more time to spread the Gospel." She noted that the huge international media interest in
her situation presented, "...a bigger window of opportunity to show the life that Jesus
Christ has given to me, a life I want to give back to others."
It is said that about 10% of
seriously imprisoned persons eventually become "jail house converts". The U.S. Supreme Court
declined to review her case, and she was executed 3 Feb. 1998. Fortunately, because of her
conversion, Karla Faye Tucker had already received the only pardon that really
counts!
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You have just read a very brief example of the
powerful, supernatural transformation of a person's life which is possible through the
acceptance of Jesus as your savior. Are you tired of life as it now is for you? He will
accept you just as you are right this second! Consider accepting Jesus now
[check it
out]!
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