Aileen Wuornos: Sex Workers In Florida Prisons

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An abused child who later earned her living as a sex worker, Aileen Wuornos was found guilty of killing six men and was later executed in a Florida prison by lethal injection in 2002. Having been involved in previous incidents with the law, she made a living as a sex worker on Florida's highways, and in 1989 she killed a man who had picked her up. She went on to kill at least five other men and was eventually caught, convicted and placed on death row.
Alieen Wuornos, born February 29, 1956, grew up in a tumultuous childhood. Her father served prison time for child molestation and later killed himself in prison. Her mother abandoned her and her brother leaving them to be raised by their grandparents. Later she admitted to being sexually abused

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