[Susan Zahn]

The Road between Hollywood and Heaven just got shorter.

A petite woman with bright eyes and a warm smile, Karla Faye Tucker managed to focus attention on women, the death penalty and whether a repentant murderer deserves mercy. It was her conversion to Christianity and her prison ministering that led people from around the world to ask that her life be spared.

Tucker started using drugs when she was 8 years old. She turned to prostitution at 13. And by the time she turned 23 had killed two people with a pickax in Houston, Texas .

"This is the story you haven't heard", exclaims Helen. "There was this tremendous love story between Karla and prison minister Dana Brown that the world has yet to hear about, both Karla and Dana had a passion to serve God that's what drew them together, death row just happened to be the setting."

Some insiders predict a wave of New Testament- themed movies or uplifting films in general as a result of "The Passion of the Christ' box office success.

"Will there really be scriptural pictures - Old Testament, New Testament?" asked Peter Guber, a producer who formerly ran Sony Pictures Entertainment. "The answer seemingly is probably so."

That is 'good news' for Helen's production company Pulling Gs with two biblical features in development and a feature film looking for a distribution partner.

[Delbert]

Here in Texas, not only do we enforce the death penalty, we have added an Express Lane!

[mcg1969]

I'm glad to hear she repented and accepted Jesus Christ. If she understood her salvation correctly than she should have been all the more willing and ready to die.

[UCSC Republican]

Karla Faye Tucker was the woman who claimed to have had an orgasm while killing her victim with a pickaxe, if I remember correctly.

[longtermmemmory]

yet another effort to portray homosexuals as normal.

Hollyweird's march of revisionist christianity begins.

They just don't get it. They are trying to draw a sacrificial parallel with this serial killer being executed with "The Passion".

In related news, studios make less money again.

[Hat-Trick]

Good looks? You be the judge:

""There was this tremendous love story between Karla and prison minister Dana Brown that the world has yet to hear about, both Karla and Dana had a passion to serve God that's what drew them together, death row just happened to be the setting.""

Is the "prison minister Dana Brown" male or female, and if female did KFT's Christianity grow out of a lesbian relationship with this "prison minister"?

[Vinnie]

I remember a case in S. Fla from about 25 yrs ago.

Seems a woman was abusing and neglecting her kids and one of them died.
She was sentenced to yrs. in prison.

Well, a Christian man started working with her and after a yr. or two claimed she was 'born again.

The two of them solicited the parole board for her release. The woman was to marry the man when she got out.

The parole board released her.

She disappeared. Just took off. I don't recall her ever being found.

Just remembered her name... Lois Naza (sp) I think.

Needless to say, I'm very skeptical of these 'conversions'.

[dix]

I live in Houston, and remember when this happened. I’m sorry if her Mother whizzed in her Cheerios when she was young, but she was a total waste case. For whatever reason she should have and she did pay the ultimate price.

I’m so happy she found the Lord before she died, but people like her are the reason we have the death penalty.

BTW, for all of us Dubya admirers the heat was on him big time from Pat Robertson to of course all of the usual suspects, but Governor Bush stood firm. Right then, and there the world should have gotten a clue. He says what he means.