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Wuornos was suspected in the death of another man, but his body was never found, nor was she officially charged with the crime. Per standard procedure, Wuornos was offered one final meal before her execution, as well as a chance to say her final words before she died.
McVeigh’s last meal consisted of two pints of mint ice cream. Between 1989 and 1990, serial killer and sex worker Aileen Wuornos murdered seven of her male clients in Florida. A jury sentenced Wuornos to death by lethal injection, with the execution commencing on Oct. 9, 2002.
On October 9, 2002, prostitute Aileen Carol Wuornos, was executed by lethal injection for killing seven men in Florida. The serial killer declined a last meal, but asked for one cup of coffee.
On October 9, 2002, Aileen Wuornos faced execution by lethal injection at Florida State Prison. As her final moments approached, she was offered a last meal but declined, opting only for a cup of black coffee. Wuornos delivered her final statement shortly before the execution. She smiled at witnesses and uttered a cryptic message, vowing to return.
Wuornos declined the traditional last meal, which could have been anything she wanted for under $20, and instead was given a cup of coffee. A half-dozen anti-death penalty demonstrators were outside the prison, but were outnumbered by corrections officers.
Aileen Wuornos proclaimed to the bitter end that the seven homicides she was accused of committing were acts of self-defense. However, the American legal system disagreed and she was executed by lethal injection in 2002. She declined a final meal, but instead asked for a single cup of coffee. Florida Department of Corrections/Pixabay
Aileen Wuornos In Florida State Prison in 2002, after refusing her last meal in favour of a final cup of coffee, her lethal injection went ahead without any problems, a direct contrast to the rest of her unimaginably tortured life.
Aileen Wuornos killed seven men while working as a prostitute in Florida in 1989 and 1990. She ultimately declined a last meal and instead asked for a cup of black coffee.
Officials said Wuornos declined her last meal of barbecued chicken but had a cup of coffee about 12:30 a.m. She went to sleep at 1 a.m., asking to be awakened at 5.
After requesting just a cup of black coffee for her final meal, Florida put Aileen Wuornos to death. She was the second woman in the state and the tenth in the country overall to be executed since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.