"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
MOTION PICTURE BASED ON AILEEN'S
LIFE AND DEATH
Charlize Theron, in an award winning performance, is Aileen Wuornos
in the Hollywood film "MONSTER"
www.monsterfilm.com
Aileen Wuornos Charlize
As Aileen Charlize Theron
thanks
to monsterfilm.com for the above
image
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'S CHILDHOOD
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.
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
In Support Of Aileen:
A song about
Aileen...
by Gang Bang Guerilla feat Manoush
Hey Aileen
Hey Aileen, did you keep your heart from dying by throwing it away
Hey Aileen
did you keep your heart from crying by blowing those away
that raped your flesh and ate your soul
Hey Aileen
dreams get shot into pieces
faster than you can pull the trigger
love can be so big baby
but life is always bigger
Aileen where was your god when you needed him most
hand in hand with your prayers he gave up the ghost
Hey Aileen
right or wrong are just words sometimes
heaven or hell ain´t worth a thought sometimes
Hey Aileen
just for you i make it rhyme this time
i just can´t stop wondering
what they really judged you for
maybe they judged you for murder
maybe they just stoned the whore
Aileen is there a god now
as you don´t need one anymore
or you still stuck in purgatory
like in your life before
it was alright in the wrong baby
and so wrong in the right
i´ll leave a candle for you in my window
to light your way through the nite
a candle like a wish
none ever said
a candle for the prayer
none ever prayed
Aileen where was your god when you needed him most
hand in hand with your prayers
he gave up the ghost
words: Manoush 2002
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