Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed, more than...

Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed, more than a decade after she murdered 6 men along central Florida highways while working as a prostitute.
Wuornos, 46, was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:47 a.m. in Florida State Prison near Starke.
Wuornos, one of the nation's few female serial killers, had fired her attorneys and dropped her appeals despite lingering questions over her sanity.
Wuornos, 46, spent a decade on Florida's death row. She was sentenced to death 6 times for killing middle-aged men in 1989 and 1990.
Wuornos' death warrant was for her 1st murder victim, Richard Mallory.
After standing trial for Mallory's death, Wuornos pleaded guilty to 5 other murders.
For years, Wuornos claimed she shot the men out of self-defense while being raped and sodomized.
Later, she recanted her claims, saying she wanted to make peace with God.
"I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again," she told the state Supreme Court.
Wuornos also claimed to have killed a 7th man.
Gov. Jeb Bush issued a stay and ordered a mental exam, but lifted the stay last week after 3 psychiatrists who interviewed her concluded that she understood she would die and why she was being executed.
Wuornos joined Judy Buenoano as the only women Florida has executed since resuming the death penalty in 1976. 51 men have been executed by Florida during that span.