Women Who Have Received the Death Penalty in Florida
Babyface
Info for someone asking about Florida's death row inmates....the main link
is http://www.dc.state.fl.us/main.html
and the link where I found this info was
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/security/womendr.html
and then you can click on the hyperlinks to go to the Execution List and
Death Row Roster
Babyface
Florida Department of Corrections
Death Row Fact Sheet
Women Who Have Received the Death Penalty in Florida
February 1998
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Bertha Hall
23, and Gordon Denmark, 22, were sentenced 10/9/26 to the electric chair
for the killing of her grocer husband. The death sentences of Hall and
Denmark were commuted in 1929. She was sentenced from Duval County and
released in late 1934 or early 1935.
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Billie Jackson
WF, was sentenced in Duval County on 2/1/27 for the stabbing death of her
musician husband. Her sentence was commuted seven months later by Gov.
Martin and she was released in 1935-36.
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Ruby McCollum
BF, born 1901 was sentenced in Suwannee County in 1954. She was convicted
of shooting a doctor in Live Oak on 8/3/52 and spent two years in jail
awaiting death until the Florida Supreme Court reversed the sentence. She
was sent to the state mental hospital in Chattahoochee before re-trial and
remained there 20 years before she was released to her family in 1974.
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Irene Laverne Jackson
BF, born 6/26/19, was, with her son and another man, sentenced to death in
Pasco County 4/24/62 for murdering her husband for his insurance money. A
new trial had been ordered and she was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment for second degree murder in the second trial on 2/6/64. She
was paroled on 1/17/72 and discharged from parole status in 1980.
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Maria Dean Arrington
BF, born 8/16/33, was sentenced form Volusia County on 5/22/68 to twenty
years for manslaughter in the death of her husband. While out of prison on
appeal bond, she sought revenge against the public defender who
unsuccessfully defended two of her children on felony charges. On 12/6/68,
in Hernando County, she was sentenced to death for first degree murder in
the killing of the secretary of the Lake County public defender. While at
Florida C.I. she escaped by cutting through a heavy window screen. She
became the second woman ever to the named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted
List. She was captured two years later; on 3/14/72, in Marion County, she
was sentenced to 10 more years for escape. Her death sentence was commuted
to life on 8/28/72 when the U.S. Supreme Court determined capital
punishment laws unconstitutional. She is still in prison at Broward C.I. in
Pembroke Pines.
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Sonia Jacobs
WF, born 8/24/47, was convicted in 1976 for her part in the shooting deaths
of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and his friend, a Canadian constable on
vacation. Jessie J. Tafero was also sentenced to death for the same crime.
Jacobs began her sentenced at Broward C.I. on 8/20/76. Her sentenced was
overturned by Supreme Court on 3/26/81 and she was resentenced to life with
a 25-year minimum mandatory term. On 10/9/92 her case was reversed on
appeal. She plead to second degree murder, time served and was released
10/9/92.
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Kaysie B. Dudley
WF, born 7/24/63, was sentenced to death in Pinellas County on 1/27/87 for
the murder of her mother’s employer, a wealthy Redington Beach widow, on
9/30/85. She was resentenced to life with 25 year minimum mandatory on
10/2/89.
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Carla A. Callier
WF, born 9/11/63, was sentenced in Hillsborough County on 3/19/87 for the
murder of her husband on 11/20/86 in Tampa. She was re-sentenced to life
with a minimum mandatory 25 years on 7/26/88.
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Dee D. Casteel
WF, born 6/5/38, was sentenced in Dade County on 9/16/87 for the 1983
murder of an 84 year old women. The woman had begun asking about her
missing son, who Casteel and a fellow employee had ordered killed a month
before. Casteel paid two mechanics to kill the woman. Her death sentence
was vacated on 12/6/90. She was resentenced to life on 12/19/91.
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Andrea Hicks Jackson
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BF, born 2/26/58, was sentenced in Duval County on 2/10/84, for the murder
of a Jacksonville police officer. She shot the officer five times when he
tried to arrest her on 5/17/83 for filing a false report about a vandalized
car. She was the first woman in Florida to have her death warrant signed,
which occurred on 3/7/89. Her warrant was stayed on 5/4/89 by the Florida
Supreme Court. She is at Broward C.I.
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Judias Goodyear Buenoano
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WF, born 4/4/43, was sentenced in Orange County on 11/26/85, for the
9/16/71 death of her husband by poisoning him with arsenic. Nicknamed "the
Black Widow," Goodyear was also convicted (and sentenced to life) for the
May 13, 1980 drowning murder of her paralyzed son in Santa Rosa County. She
has had two death warrants signed and stayed. She is a Broward C.I.
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Deidre Hunt
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WF, born 2/9/69, was sentenced from Volusia County on 9/13/90 for the
10/20/89 shooting murders of two men she involved in a murder for money
scheme. She was videotaped shooting one of the men by her co-defendant
Kosta Fotopoulos, her former boss and lover. She plead guilty and is at
Broward C.I.
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Aileen C. Wuornos
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WF, born 2/29/56, was sentenced from Volusia County on 1/31/92 for the
December 1, 1989 shooting murder of a Clearwater businessman. She has been
implicated in the deaths of several other men. She is at Broward C.I.
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Ana Marie Cardona
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Cuban female, born 11/26/61, was sentenced from Dade County for the torture
murder of her three-year-old son. The boy was nicknamed "Baby Lollipops"
because of the tee shirt he was wearing when the police found his beaten
body. She’s at Broward C.I.
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Virginia Larzelere
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WF, born 12/27/52, was sentenced from Volusia County on 5/11/93 for
masterminding the killing of her husband, an Edgewater dentist. She is also
at Broward C.I.
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For more information on the inmates on Florida's Death Row, go to our Death
Row Roster or our Execution List. These will give you specific statistics
on each inmate.
These statistics furnished by The Department of Corrections - Bureau of
Information Services.
For more information, call Debbie Buchanan at (904) 488-0420, SC 278-0420
or e-mail her at buchana...@mail.dc.state.fl.us
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