Woman Serial Killer Executed in Florida

World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

A woman serial killer convicted of the murder of six men has been executed in Florida's state prison. Aileen Wuornos, 46, died at 0947 local time (1347GMT) in the prison at Starke, after being injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs, according to a spokeswoman for Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Wuornos, nicknamed the Damsel of Death, spent 10 years on death row in Florida, after being convicted of killing six men when she worked as a prostitute on Florida's highways in 1989 and 1990. Her killings began with Richard Mallory on 13 December 1989, and ended in January 1991 when she was arrested in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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