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As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
After Texas abolished last meal requests in 2011, all death row inmates in Texas have been served regular prison food.
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Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 14 years old when she married Aileen's father, 18-year-old Leo Pittman (1936–1969), on June 3, 1954. On March 14, 1955, Diane gave birth to Aileen's older brother Keith. After less than two years of marriage, and two months...
On May 27, 1974, at age 18, Wuornos was arrested in Jefferson County, Colorado, for driving under the influence (DUI), disorderly conduct, and firing a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle. She was later charged with failure to appear. In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where she met 69-year-old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell. They ...
Wuornos murdered seven men within a period of 12 months. All the men were motorists between the ages of 40 and 65. 1. Richard Charles Mallory, age 51, electronics store owner in Clearwater (date of murder: November 30, 1989). Wuornos claimed that Mallory beat, raped, and sodomized her after he drove her to an abandoned area for sexual services. Mal...
On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Tyria Moore abandoned victim Peter Siems' car after they were involved in an accident. Rhonda Bailey, who witnessed the accident, provided police with a description of two women, which later led to a media campaign to locate them. Police also found some of the victims' belongings in pawnshops. Wuornos' fingerprint that ...
Being on death row
Wuornos was incarcerated at the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution (BCI) death row for women, then transferred to the Florida State Prison for execution. Her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied in 1996. In a 2001 petition to the Florida Supreme Court, she stated her intention to dismiss her legal counsel and terminate all pending appeals. "I killed those men", she wrote, "robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too. There's no chance in keeping...
Execution and death
Wuornos' execution by lethal injection took place on October 9, 2002. She declined her last meal which could have been anything under $20 and opted for a cup of coffee instead. Her last words were, "Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back". She died at 9:47 a.m. EDT. She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be execut...
According to some specialists, Wuornos' crimes have been related to her psychopathic personality and her psychotraumatic past. Assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist, Wuornos scored 32/40 with the cutoff score of 30 for determining psychopathy. Wuornos was also known to meet the relevant criteria for determining borderline personality disorder an...
Books
1. Reynolds, Michael (1992). Dead Ends. Warner (1st ed.). ISBN 9780446362825. 2. Russell, Sue (2002). Lethal Intent. Pinnacle Books. ISBN 0786015187. 3. Wuornos, Aileen; Berry-Dee, Christopher (2004). Monster: My True Story. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1844540792. 4. Wuornos, Aileen (2012). Kester, Lisa; Gottlieb, Daphne (eds.). Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1593762902. Other works 1. The poem "Sugar Zero" by Rima Banerji (appears in the 2005 Arsen...
Documentaries
Filmmaker Nick Broomfielddirected two documentaries about Wuornos: 1. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer(1993) 2. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer(2003) Wuornos was the subject of episodes of the documentary TV series American Justice, Biography and Deadly Women. She was also featured in an episode of the TV series The New Detectives(season 3, episode 1: "Fatal Compulsion"). An episode of Murder Made Me Famous on the Reelz television network, airing December 1, 2018, chro...
Films
The biographical drama film Monster (2003), stars Charlize Theron as Wuornos and Christina Ricci as Tyria Moore (Selby Wall in the film). The film centers on Wuornos' series of murders and her relationship with her girlfriend Tyria Moore. Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actressfor her performance in the film. The horror thriller film Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman (2021), stars Peyton List as Wuornos. It shows a fictional version of Wuornos' marriage in 1976. The film was released...
Aileen Wuornos at "Inmate Release Information Detail". Corrections Offender Network. Florida Department of Corrections.Haire, Kevlin (August 7, 1991). "Driver who got away says Wuornos told him of killings". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved January 6, 2023.Nov 17, 2017 · Last updated on June 27, 2024. This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions.
Oct 15, 2023 · 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.
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