As if the war weren't enough

Aileen Wuornos, whose story has been told in countless articles as well as a documentary film and even an opera, was executed today by the state of Florida.

Wuornos became a symbol of many things for many people in the early 1990s. A white trash dyke who turned to truck stop prostitution and killed the johns whom (she said) abused her, Wuornos represented everything from justifiable female rage (to lesbian and anti-abuse activists) to "the first female serial killer" (to tabloid journalists).

Links:
- page on prisonactivist.org
- she gives up appeals, wants execution
- Wuornos is found competent to be executed
- a timeline from Orlando Sentinel