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 Wuornos's 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.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> 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."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> She died at 9:47a.m. EDT.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/02cb5e52d50e756b8576d1b9a37f184a</ref> She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision]] restoring capital punishment.
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 On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of Charles Richard Humphreys, Troy Eugene Burress, and David Andrew Spears, saying she wanted to "get right with God".<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In her statement to the court, she said, in part, "I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I've told you; but these others did not. [They] only began to start to."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Charles Edmund Carskaddon. In November 1992, she received her fifth death sentence.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Jeno Antonio and was sentenced to death again. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Peter Abraham Siems, as his body was never found. In all, Wuornos received six death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>
-Wuornos's 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.<ref name="clarkprosecutor"/> 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."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> She died at 9:47a.m. EDT.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/02cb5e52d50e756b8576d1b9a37f184a</ref> She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision]] restoring capital punishment.
+Wuornos's 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.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> 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."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> She died at 9:47a.m. EDT.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/02cb5e52d50e756b8576d1b9a37f184a</ref> She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision]] restoring capital punishment.
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 Wuornos murdered seven men within a period of 12 months. All the men were drivers between the ages of 40 to 65.
-* '''Richard Charles Mallory''', age 51, electronics store owner in Clearwater (date of murder: November 30, 1989). Wuornos claimed that Mallory beat, [[rape]]d, and [[Anal sex|sodomized]] her after he drove her to an abandoned area for sexual services. Mallory was Wuornos' first victim and she claimed to have killed him in self-defense. Later, it became known that Mallory had previously been convicted for attempted rape in Maryland. Two days after the murder, a Volusia County deputy sheriff found Mallory's abandoned vehicle. On December 13, his body was found several miles away in a wooded area; he had been shot several times, and two bullets to the left lung were found to have been the cause of death.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>
+* '''Richard Charles Mallory''', age 51, electronics store owner in Clearwater (date of murder: November 30, 1989). Wuornos claimed that Mallory beat, [[rape]]d, sodomized her after he drove her to an abandoned area for sexual services. Mallory was Wuornos' first victim and she claimed to have killed him in self-defense. Later, it became known that Mallory had previously been convicted for attempted rape in Maryland. Two days after the murder, a Volusia County deputy sheriff found Mallory's abandoned vehicle. On December 13, his body was found several miles away in a wooded area; he had been shot several times, and two bullets to the left lung were found to have been the cause of death.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>
 * '''David Andrew Spears''', age 47, construction worker in Winter Garden. He was declared missing as of May 19, 1990.<ref>https://aileencarolwuornos.weebly.com/david-spears.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200725005304/https://aileencarolwuornos.weebly.com/david-spears.html</ref>
 * '''Charles Edmund Carskaddon''', age 40, part-time rodeo worker (date of murder: May 31, 1990). On June 6, 1990, his body was found in Pasco County. He had been shot nine times with a .22 caliber weapon. The body had been wrapped in an electric blanket and was badly decomposing when found. Witnesses saw Wuornos in possession of Carskaddon's car, and Wuornos had also pawned a gun identified as belonging to Carskaddon.<ref>https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1995/81466-0.htm</ref>

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 == Conviction and Execution ==
-On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of Charles Richard Humphreys, Troy Eugene Burress, and David Andrew Spears, saying she wanted to "get right with God".<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In her statement to the court, she said, in part, "I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I've told you; but these others did not. [They] only began to start to."<ref name="clarkprosecutor" /> On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Charles Edmund Carskaddon. In November 1992, she received her fifth death sentence.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Jeno Antonio and was sentenced to death again. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Peter Abraham Siems, as his body was never found. In all, Wuornos received six death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>
+On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of Charles Richard Humphreys, Troy Eugene Burress, and David Andrew Spears, saying she wanted to "get right with God".<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In her statement to the court, she said, in part, "I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I've told you; but these others did not. [They] only began to start to."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Charles Edmund Carskaddon. In November 1992, she received her fifth death sentence.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Jeno Antonio and was sentenced to death again. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Peter Abraham Siems, as his body was never found. In all, Wuornos received six death sentences.<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref>
 Wuornos's 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.<ref name="clarkprosecutor"/> 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."<ref>http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080914165003/http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm</ref> She died at 9:47a.m. EDT.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/02cb5e52d50e756b8576d1b9a37f184a</ref> She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision]] restoring capital punishment.

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-[[Aileen Carol Wuornos]] born '''Pittman'''; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American [[serial killer]].  In 1989–1990, while engaging in [[street prostitution]] along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. Wuornos claimed that her clients had either [[rape]]d or attempted to rape her, and that all of the [[homicide]]s were committed in self-defense. Wuornos was sentenced to death for six of the murders and on October 9, 2002, after 12 years on Florida's death row,<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlize-therons-monster-role/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220110102627/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlize-therons-monster-role/</ref> was executed by lethal injection.
+[[Aileen Carol Wuornos]] born '''Pittman'''; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer.  In 1989–1990, while engaging in [[street prostitution]] along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. Wuornos claimed that her clients had either [[rape]]d or attempted to rape her, and that all of the [[homicide]]s were committed in self-defense. Wuornos was sentenced to death for six of the murders and on October 9, 2002, after 12 years on Florida's death row,<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlize-therons-monster-role/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220110102627/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlize-therons-monster-role/</ref> was executed by lethal injection.
 In the biographical film ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'' (2003), Wuornos' story is described from her first murder until her execution. For her portrayal of Wuornos, [[Charlize Theron]] won the Academy Award for Best Actress.