PART I	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING WAR
	Chapter  1	About Ethical Canons and War
	Chapter  2	Decisions Precipitating War
	Chapter  3	Human Sacrifice
	Chapter  4	Amiriyah Shelter
	PART II	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EQUALITY
	Chapter  5	Slavery
	Chapter  6	Arens' Atrocity Attribution Theory
	Chapter  7	Genocide of Native Americans
	Chapter  8	Intermarriage
	PART III	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING JUSTICE
	Chapter  9	Incarceration
	Chapter 10	Reemergence of Torture
	Chapter 11	Witchcraft Trials
	Chapter 12	Trials of Heretics
	PART IV	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING RELIGION
	Chapter 13	The New and Old Testaments
	Chapter 14	Transplanted Mentality
	Chapter 15	God and His Messengers
	PART V	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EMPATHY
	Chapter 16	Karla Tucker and George W. Bush
	Chapter 17	A Girl with the Almond Eyes
	Chapter 18	Beyond Partiality: Building a World of Laughter and Love

Empathy - Karla Tucker and George Bush

Myriam Miedzian in Growing Up Is Hard To Do (The Baltimore Sun, 12 September 2000) writes that Bush, Jr., evidences

"deficient empathic ability and a relative inability to identify with others. When he was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them in the air, and then watching them blow up. Cruelty to animals is a common precursor to later criminal violence. In fact, the triad of cruelty to animals, fire setting, and enuresis are symptoms typically found in the histories of serial killers."

The Story of Karla Tucker  Karla Tucker (1959-1998) was a tomboy type. When she was 13, she began traveling with the Allman Brothers Band. In her early 20's she began to hung out with bikers and on June 13, 1983 she entered the home of another biker with Danny Garrett and James Leibrant to steal a motorcycle. During the robbery, two persons were killed, one by Danny Garrett and Karla Tucker, the second by Danny Garrett.

The trendy lie  During the Tuckers trial, a tape recorded by Garrett's brother while wearing a wire was played on which she claimed that she had multiple orgasms during the killings. She retorted that this was just a big talk to impress her friends. On this point, Florence King (National Review, March 9, 1998) commented that

The murder occurred in 1983 when the multiple-orgasm craze was going full-tilt, when it was impossible to turn on the TV without hearing feminists talking about the female's "superior capacity," or read Cosmopolitan without finding an article on the mighty G-spot. I would bet anything that enough of this pop carnality filtered through to Karla Faye to inspire the trendy lie that sealed her doom.

The prison years, and death Danny Garrett and Karla Tucker were sentenced to death in 1984, Karla Tucker was at that time 23 years old. Danny Garrett died later in prison of liver disease. While on death row, Karla Tucker became a born-again Christian and married by proxy the prison chaplain, Dana Lane Brown, whom she was allowed to see during the marriage ceremony only through a Plexiglas barrier. Amid worldwide appeals for clemency on her behalf, she was executed in 1998, after 14 years on the death row.  Her last words were:

"I would like to say to all of you, the Thornton family and Jerry Dean's family that I am so sorry.[...]I love all of you very much, I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you."

Karla Faye was buried in an unmarked grave on Thursday afternoon, February 5, 1998. However, the inscription she wanted on her headstone, a poem by Mary Frye, can be found on the Internet.

Karla Tucker and George W. Bush  Before Tucker was executed, there were appeals for clemency from Waly Bacre Ndiaye, the United Nations commissioner on summary and arbitrary executions, the World Council of Churches, Pope John Paul II, and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, among other world figures. Karla Tucker did not ask for a pardon, only commutation of her death sentence to life-time imprisonment that she can atone for what she has done by working in the prison’s hospital. Huntsville Prison's warden testified that she was a model prisoner and that, after 14 years on death row, she likely had been reformed. Despite these pleas, Bush signed her death warrant. In 1999 commentator Carlson interviewed Bush for the Talk Magazine (September 1999, p. 106). Excerpt from this interview is quoted below:

In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, "What would you say to Governor Bush?" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me." I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.

President bush and his adviser: G-d  Before making his decision not to grant clemency to Karla Tucker, Governor Bush prayed on it all night with God, and God told him to abide by the laws of the Great state of Texas. On July 16, 2004, the Lancaster New Era newspaper reported that President Bush II made a statement that

'God speaks through me.'

Stephen Mansfield (2003) in his book The Faith of George W. Bush tells that Bush and Tony Blair have prayed together at a private meeting at Camp David and how, while flying on the Air Force One from El Salvador, Bush ordered all persons on the plane to the conference room, where the religious service was led by Condoleezza Rice and the lesson was read by close Bush aide Karen Hughes.

International reactions
Tucker gained international attention both for being the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War and the first in the United States since 1984. Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro noted in a public speech that spectators outside a Texas prison had cheered when Tucker was executed. In England, Richard Harries of the Diocese of Oxford reported that a Gospel singer's rendition of Amazing Grace was shouted down by cries of Kill the bitch! from the crowd that gathered outside of prison. From Nicaragua, Bianca Jagger campaigned on behalf of Karla Tucker and Sean Sellers, who was executed the same year as Karla Tucker for a crime he committed at age 16, using their example to point out the anomaly of the U.S. Justice system as compared to other post-industrial countries that abolished the death penalty and executions of prisoners for crimes committed when they were legally considered children.

 

References
Carlson, T. (1999) Devil May Care. Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106.
King, L. (1998) Karla Faye Tucker: Live from Death Row. CNN Transcript # 98011400V22.