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Female Serial Killer to be Executed
ABCNEWS.com Wire ^ | Sept. 5, 2002 | Associated Press

Posted on 09/05/2002 9:39:47 PM PDT by grimalkin

Florida Gov. Bush Orders One of First Known U.S. Female Serial Killers Executed Next Month

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Sept. 5 — Gov. Jeb Bush signed a death warrant Thursday for Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways and was one of the nation's first known female serial killers. Her execution was set for Oct. 9.

The governor also ordered the Oct. 2 execution of death row inmate Rigoberto Sanchez Velasco, who was condemned for the 1986 murder of a Hialeah girl.

With Bush seeking re-election in November, some death penalty critics accused the governor of making capital punishment a political issue.

Abe Bonowitz, director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, called the death warrants "a transparent and crass political move at a time when Mr. Bush knows that the courts will issue stays in both cases." He referred to legal challenges to Florida's death penalty that are pending before the state's Supreme Court.

But stays for Wuornos or Sanchez appear unlikely: Neither has attorneys since both dropped their appeals. Bush spokeswoman Katie Muniz said both confessed more than 10 years ago and have volunteered for execution.

Wuornos, 46, was convicted of fatally shooting six middle-aged men who picked her up as a hitchhiker in 1989 and 1990. Her story has been portrayed in two movies, three books and an opera.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: aileenwuornos; govjebbush; serialkiller

1 posted on 09/05/2002 9:39:47 PM PDT by grimalkin
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To: grimalkin
An opera???
2 posted on 09/05/2002 9:43:47 PM PDT by sawsalimb
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To: sawsalimb
Never heard about that one. I bet it wasn't too popular, but you never know these days.
3 posted on 09/05/2002 9:45:13 PM PDT by grimalkin
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To: grimalkin
That women's liberation stuff is really gettin' off the ground...
4 posted on 09/05/2002 9:47:03 PM PDT by woofie
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To: sawsalimb
Right...An opera? How can you sing about something like rape?
5 posted on 09/05/2002 9:54:19 PM PDT by shiva
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To: grimalkin
Aileen Wournos, on a good day...
6 posted on 09/05/2002 10:07:18 PM PDT by Vidalia
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To: shiva
...the world is a very strange place...
7 posted on 09/05/2002 10:08:09 PM PDT by sawsalimb
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To: grimalkin
If it was October 8th. insead of the 9th., I'd have something more to celebrate than my birthday.
8 posted on 09/05/2002 10:13:24 PM PDT by RIGHT IN SEATTLE
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To: Vidalia
Aileen Wournos

It is good to see a local girl getting the reward she has so thoroughly earned.

9 posted on 09/05/2002 10:17:06 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: woofie
...was one of the nation's first known female serial killers.

What about those two sisters in "Arsenic & Old Lace"? Bonnie of "Bonnie & Clyde"? And that woman in SoCal that killed
people for the insurance money? Does Hiltery count? She and hubby know, according to Limbaugh 'today',
50, count'em 50 people that have died under mysterious circumstances. Woman caller on Savage tonight implied
that Hildebeast had JFK, Jr. killed to get him out of the way for that Senate seat. (the first I ever heard that one)

Just more shoddy reporting. (-;

10 posted on 09/05/2002 10:24:38 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: grimalkin
Good riddance. I am a Florida native, and let me tell you this woman showed absolutely no remorse during her trial...
11 posted on 09/05/2002 10:30:07 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
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To: Lunatic Fringe
bttt
12 posted on 09/06/2002 12:54:01 AM PDT by summer
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To: grimalkin
who was condemned for the 1986 murder of a Hialeah girl.

Does this girl have a name? Maybe, the reporter didn't think it was important.

13 posted on 09/06/2002 1:17:40 AM PDT by opinionator
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