(3 Feb 1998) T/I: 11:22:51
Italians gathered outside the US embassy in Rome on Tuesday (03/02) in a final protest against the imminent execution of double murderer Karla Faye Tucker in Texas. Public outcry continued with headlines in every major Italian newspaper asking for mercy for the condemned murderer.
Tucker, 38, was sentenced for the pickaxe murder of a couple in 1983. She will be the first woman to be executed in the United States in 14 years, and the first in Texas since 1864.
Tucker, a former prostitute who has become a devout Christian, has aroused widespread support in America and Europe.
SHOWS:
ROME, ITALY, 3/2
0.00 WS demonstrators gathered outside US embassy;
0.05 MS demonstrators holding candles;
0.09 Demonstrators holding sign saying 'Clinton Save Karla Tucker';
0.13 Signs saying 'Karla speaks on TV to the Americans from death row, saying I have changed;
0.15 MS holding banners;
0.19 SOT Gaia Rosini, in English: "We are here to ask to stop the execution of Karla Tucker, who is a different person from the one who committed the murder fifteen years ago"
0.29 WS newspapers;
0.32 PAN headlines;
0.38 VS demonstrator holds banner, tilt down banner;
0.44 CU demonstrator with candle;
0.47 WS demonstrators holding banner;
0.52 MS demonstrators holding candles;
0.57 US flag upside down PAN to demonstrators holding flags;
1.03 Back shot demonstrators holding banner;
1.06 VISION ENDS
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