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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convicted in 1984 and sentenced to death. Fourteen years later, in the state with the busiest execution chamber in the land, Tucker now finds herself next in line to die. Barring a last-minute delay or commutation, on Feb. 3 she will be strapped to a gurney in Huntsville, Texas, and given a lethal injection that will stop her heart. If that happens, she will become the first woman executed in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in 1863 for killing a horse trader--and the first woman in the U.S. since Velma ("Death Row Granny") Barfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...state that commutes death sentences less often than the Patriots reach the Superbowl, Karla Faye Tucker should die. She should be strapped to the lethal injection gurney just like her 37 compatriots were last year and she should be pumped full of enough toxins to asphyxiate and kill her. The crime of which Terry Nichols was convicted does not warrant the final punishment of death. If Ted Kaczynski is insane, life imprisonment without parole and medical help are appropriate, not execution...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Death of a Woman, et al. | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...first suit charges Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies William A. Graham and Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh of defamation of character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Fellow Sues University, HUPD | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi named Harvard University, Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies William A. Graham and Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh--who are both affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)--as defendants...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Former Harvard Affiliate Files Lawsuit Against University and Two Professors | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

...Graham writes about the "baselessness" of my charges. I challenge him to state publicly that the CMES and/or Roy Mottahedeh have never had any dealings/ties with the Disinherited Foundation. Also, I invite him to contact professor John Gurney at Oxford University and professor Ervand Abramian at City University in New York to learn that Mr. Roy Mottahedeh has done his best to defame me with other Middle East scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware of Intellectual Fascism at Harvard | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

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