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Wuornos was sentenced to death for six of the murders. She was executed on October 9, 2002, by lethal injection after spending more than 10 years on Florida's death row. [4]
Touted in the popular consciousness as “America’s first female serial killer” — a specious label that nevertheless stuck — Aileen Wuornos died via state-administered lethal injection on October 9, 2002. Florida State Prison officials executed Wuornos for six of the seven murders she committed between 1989 and 1990.
Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in Starke, Florida. She was 46 years old. Her reported last words were, “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock, and I...
Aileen Wuornos, the first woman ever to fit the FBI profile of a serial killer, was executed by lethal injection today. Wuornos, 46, was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:47 a.m. in Florida State Prison near Starke, said Jill Bratina, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jeb Bush.
Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways, was executed by injection today after dropping her appeals and firing her lawyers. Ms. Wuornos, 46, became the...
Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida's highways more than a decade ago, was executed by injection Wednesday after dropping her appeals and firing her...
Oct. 9 -- Aileen Wuornos, the first woman ever to fit the FBI profile of a serial killer,was executed by lethal injection today. Wuornos, 46, was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:47a.m. in Florida State Prison near Starke, said Jill Bratina, aspokeswoman for Gov. Jeb Bush.
In 1989–90, posing as a hitchhiking prostitute, she killed seven middle-aged male motorists and left their bodies along the highways of Florida and southern Georgia; some speculate that she may have killed an eighth motorist in the same period.
Convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos said she wanted to die, and Wednesday morning, Florida honored her wishes. After a decade on death row, she was pronounced dead at 9:47 a.m. EDT.
Between 1989 and 1990, serial killer Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men throughout Florida before being sent to death row and finally executed in 2002. After a childhood of abuse and abandonment, Aileen Wuornos went on a killing rampage that left at least seven men dead in just one year.