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”To this day, I have no idea what I did for my two boys that was constructive and useful and right and good, and what damaged them, none.”

-Beverly Lowry, ”Crossed Over”

On the morning of June 13, 1983, Karla Faye Tucker, age 23, helped murder two people.

There was a pickax involved. That`s what people in Texas remember, that the bodies of Deborah Ruth Thornton and Jerry Lynn Dean were full of pickax holes.

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That, and the fact that Karla Faye said she got sexual satisfaction every time she swung the pickax. It`s not the kind of detail you forget.

Karla Faye is on death row now, awaiting execution by injection, and she never tries to make excuses for what she did, or to say she didn`t do it.

The extraordinary book, ”Crossed Over,” that a novelist named Beverly Lowry has written about the case is not about innocence.

It is about redemption, about how one superlatively messed up little girl-”a doper at eight, a needle freak behind heroin by