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		Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y Better luck next time “I'm very happy that she's had the last 15 years to get right with her maker ... unfortunately the victims in this case, Jimmy Dean and Deborah Thornton, maybe had 15 seconds.” -- Joe Magliolo, who prosecuted Karla Faye Tucker, the Texas woman whose scheduled Feb. 3 execution in Texas has become a cause célèbre. Tucker, 38, convicted of the 1983 pickax murders of Dean and Thornton, has spent the last 15 years in prison, where she says she has found God. Quoted by CNN. SALON | Jan. 16, 1998