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Carla Hughes

1981–

United States

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Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) is an American former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the 2006 murders of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. She is serving two consecutive sentences of life without parole at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility near Pearl, Mississippi.

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