Post by CCADP on May 17, 2005 11:06:43 GMT -5
www.ccadp.org/aileenwuornos.htm
Aileen's CCADP page
Executed October 9, 2002 in Florida
The state Supreme Court rejected two efforts to stop the execution based on claims she was mentally ill and therefore not competent to be executed. The State's psychiatrists disagreed and certified she was competent to be executed...
"I'd 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 mothership and all. I'll be back," - From Aileen's Last Words
News:
ccadp.org/aileenwuornos-news2002.htm
Next Friend Emergency Petition :
ccadp.org/aileenwuornos-appeal2002.htm
the Death Warrant
www.flcourts.org/pubinfo/deathwarrants/Filed_09-05-2002_WuornosWarrant.pdf
In Support Of Aileen
www.prisonactivist.org/pubs/crossroad/6.3/wuornos.html
WHY HAS AILEEN ABANDONED HER APPEALS ?
WHY IS SHE ASKING THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO KILL HER ?
Aileen has mental and emotional problems, as well as suffering
from depression, and needs treatment - not to be murdered!
"Her defense attorney states that Wuornos operates at the emotional level of a 2-3 year old, and her behavior should be understood within that framework. " - From Court TV's Information on Aileen
Aileen comes from a dificult background. She was born February 29th, 1956, to Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman. Her parents had divorced just a few months before Aileen was born. Her mother, seventeen at the time of her divorce, abandoned Aileen to the care of her maternal grandparents. Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman, described as "a child molester and sociopath" was either was strangled or hung himself in prison in 1969, when Aileen was just thirteen years old.
2001 Press Release from Supporters :
www.oranous.com/women/wuornos/suicide.html
NCADP Alert : Aileen Wournos (FL) Oct. 9, 2002 7:00 AM EST
Aileen Wournos, a white woman, is scheduled to be executed Oct. 9 for a series of murders she committed in Florida in late 1989 and 1990. She confessed to six murders, but claimed she killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults by men while working as a prostitute. At her trial for the murder of Richard Mallory, Wournos testified that she shot him only after he attempted to violently rape her. Police found "nothing dirty" on the victim and concluded that there was nothing to substantiate the defendant's tale of sexual assault. Had they simply run Mallory's name through the FBI's computer network, they would have known he served a decade behind bars for violent rape years before.
The defendant's confession speaks for itself, and the argument that six murders over two months were all in self-defense is difficult to justify. However, this example of poor investigating and insufficient defense
researching represents a common trend in death penalty cases: critical evidence goes undiscovered, especially in cases of poor defendants. When Dateline NBC reported the Mallory rape charges in November of 1992, Wournos was already sitting on death row.
Despite the facts inexcusably undetected by investigators, the death sentence was extremely harsh to begin with in this case, considering the mitigating evidence in the punishment phase of the trial. The defense showed that Wournos suffered a tragic, abusive upbringing, which resulted in antisocial and borderline personality disorders. Her mother abandoned her as an infant, and her father served time in mental hospitals in several states as a deranged child molester. Eventually, her father, like her
grandfather, committed suicide, and her grandmother died of liver failure from alcoholism. Wournos suffered from physical abuse as a child, and later told police she had sex with her brother at a very early age. During both the trial and the appeal, the court declined to find the statutory factor of extreme emotional disturbance.
This case, from the early investigations to the appeals process, has been tainted by publicity and media drama. Three top investigators in the case hired lawyers within weeks of the arrest to field offers from Hollywood concerning movie deals. The media's idea of catching a "serial killer" unjustly simplified the complexities of this case. As reporter Michele Gillen said on NBC upon revealing new evidence after the conviction and death sentence: "She's a sick woman...but that's no reason for the state to say, 'She confessed to killing men; we don't have to do our homework.'"
Unfortunately, Wournos' abusive upbringing - a tragic situation far beyond her control - is not unique on death row. The United States sentences men and women to death every year with tragic childhood backgrounds, refusing to recognize the pattern of destructive behavior so often associated with such
upbringings. Please write the state of Florida to encourage a re-evaluation of Aileen Wournos' death sentence.
Please Contact
Governor Jeb Bush
Executive Office of the Governor
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: 850-488-4441
Fax: 850-487-0801
E-mail: fl_governor@myflorida.com
Pardon & Parole Board
Executive Board of Clemency
2601 Blarr Stone Road Building C Room 229
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Write Op-Ed
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132
Phone: 305-376-2100
Fax: 305-376-5287
The News Journal
PO Box 2831
Daytona Beach, FL 32120
Phone: 386-252-1511
Fax: 386-258-1577
E-mail: www.news-journalonline.com/letters.htm
For More Information
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
PMB 297
177 US Highway #1
Tequesta, FL 33469
Phone: 800-973-4483
Fax: 561-743-2500
E-mail: fadp@fadp.org
Florida Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
2363 Union Street
Fort Myers, FL 33901
Phone: 941-322-3449
EVERYONE PLEASE ADD MATERIALS OR COMMENTS HERE....
Aileen's CCADP page
Executed October 9, 2002 in Florida
The state Supreme Court rejected two efforts to stop the execution based on claims she was mentally ill and therefore not competent to be executed. The State's psychiatrists disagreed and certified she was competent to be executed...
"I'd 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 mothership and all. I'll be back," - From Aileen's Last Words
News:
ccadp.org/aileenwuornos-news2002.htm
Next Friend Emergency Petition :
ccadp.org/aileenwuornos-appeal2002.htm
the Death Warrant
www.flcourts.org/pubinfo/deathwarrants/Filed_09-05-2002_WuornosWarrant.pdf
In Support Of Aileen
www.prisonactivist.org/pubs/crossroad/6.3/wuornos.html
WHY HAS AILEEN ABANDONED HER APPEALS ?
WHY IS SHE ASKING THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO KILL HER ?
Aileen has mental and emotional problems, as well as suffering
from depression, and needs treatment - not to be murdered!
"Her defense attorney states that Wuornos operates at the emotional level of a 2-3 year old, and her behavior should be understood within that framework. " - From Court TV's Information on Aileen
Aileen comes from a dificult background. She was born February 29th, 1956, to Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman. Her parents had divorced just a few months before Aileen was born. Her mother, seventeen at the time of her divorce, abandoned Aileen to the care of her maternal grandparents. Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman, described as "a child molester and sociopath" was either was strangled or hung himself in prison in 1969, when Aileen was just thirteen years old.
2001 Press Release from Supporters :
www.oranous.com/women/wuornos/suicide.html
NCADP Alert : Aileen Wournos (FL) Oct. 9, 2002 7:00 AM EST
Aileen Wournos, a white woman, is scheduled to be executed Oct. 9 for a series of murders she committed in Florida in late 1989 and 1990. She confessed to six murders, but claimed she killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults by men while working as a prostitute. At her trial for the murder of Richard Mallory, Wournos testified that she shot him only after he attempted to violently rape her. Police found "nothing dirty" on the victim and concluded that there was nothing to substantiate the defendant's tale of sexual assault. Had they simply run Mallory's name through the FBI's computer network, they would have known he served a decade behind bars for violent rape years before.
The defendant's confession speaks for itself, and the argument that six murders over two months were all in self-defense is difficult to justify. However, this example of poor investigating and insufficient defense
researching represents a common trend in death penalty cases: critical evidence goes undiscovered, especially in cases of poor defendants. When Dateline NBC reported the Mallory rape charges in November of 1992, Wournos was already sitting on death row.
Despite the facts inexcusably undetected by investigators, the death sentence was extremely harsh to begin with in this case, considering the mitigating evidence in the punishment phase of the trial. The defense showed that Wournos suffered a tragic, abusive upbringing, which resulted in antisocial and borderline personality disorders. Her mother abandoned her as an infant, and her father served time in mental hospitals in several states as a deranged child molester. Eventually, her father, like her
grandfather, committed suicide, and her grandmother died of liver failure from alcoholism. Wournos suffered from physical abuse as a child, and later told police she had sex with her brother at a very early age. During both the trial and the appeal, the court declined to find the statutory factor of extreme emotional disturbance.
This case, from the early investigations to the appeals process, has been tainted by publicity and media drama. Three top investigators in the case hired lawyers within weeks of the arrest to field offers from Hollywood concerning movie deals. The media's idea of catching a "serial killer" unjustly simplified the complexities of this case. As reporter Michele Gillen said on NBC upon revealing new evidence after the conviction and death sentence: "She's a sick woman...but that's no reason for the state to say, 'She confessed to killing men; we don't have to do our homework.'"
Unfortunately, Wournos' abusive upbringing - a tragic situation far beyond her control - is not unique on death row. The United States sentences men and women to death every year with tragic childhood backgrounds, refusing to recognize the pattern of destructive behavior so often associated with such
upbringings. Please write the state of Florida to encourage a re-evaluation of Aileen Wournos' death sentence.
Please Contact
Governor Jeb Bush
Executive Office of the Governor
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: 850-488-4441
Fax: 850-487-0801
E-mail: fl_governor@myflorida.com
Pardon & Parole Board
Executive Board of Clemency
2601 Blarr Stone Road Building C Room 229
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Write Op-Ed
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132
Phone: 305-376-2100
Fax: 305-376-5287
The News Journal
PO Box 2831
Daytona Beach, FL 32120
Phone: 386-252-1511
Fax: 386-258-1577
E-mail: www.news-journalonline.com/letters.htm
For More Information
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
PMB 297
177 US Highway #1
Tequesta, FL 33469
Phone: 800-973-4483
Fax: 561-743-2500
E-mail: fadp@fadp.org
Florida Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
2363 Union Street
Fort Myers, FL 33901
Phone: 941-322-3449
EVERYONE PLEASE ADD MATERIALS OR COMMENTS HERE....
