Aileen Wuornos Volunteers For Execution | Snapped | Felony Files — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm Joe Hobson and I always Eileen we're
2. 0:02noses attorney while she was on death
3. 0:03row
4. 0:04my Challenger representing Eileen I mean
5. 0:06normally in my job I'd have one guy in
6. 0:08one burger one death sentence with a
7. 0:10link I had seven of them so we tried to
8. 0:13argue that mr. glazier was ineffective
9. 0:16that proper mitigation evidence wasn't
10. 0:20granted that her childhood wasn't
11. 0:23properly brought before a jury or a
12. 0:24judge who sentenced her to death
13. 0:27from 1993 to 2002 Aileen Wuornos his
14. 0:32legal team files dozens of Appeals which
15. 0:34are repeatedly denied because of all the
16. 0:37media attention you had to take into
17. 0:39factor it's gonna affect the judge who
18. 0:41might rule in emotions you know there's
19. 0:43the court of public opinion and you
20. 0:45always have to combat a unfavorable
21. 0:47media narrative
22. 0:53I've been in a lot of death rows over
23. 0:56the years and it is horrific you're in
24. 0:59the cell 23 hours a day a 6x9 sometimes
25. 1:02you have a window sometimes you don't
26. 1:04you go mad and she already had enough
27. 1:07problems as it was after several years
28. 1:11on death row
29. 1:12Eileen began to complain about her
30. 1:13treatment there in the prison she
31. 1:15thought the guards were poisoning her
32. 1:17food eileen claimed that the guards were
33. 1:20blasting noise in herself so she
34. 1:22couldn't sleep I think she was
35. 1:25sociopathic and psychotic and
36. 1:27psychopathic she thought that the CIA
37. 1:30was in on edge and thought that were
38. 1:32transmitters in her food
39. 1:37[Music]
40. 1:38the appeals process continues for many
41. 1:41years which is common in a capital
42. 1:43murder case but no one anticipates the
43. 1:46surprising twist to come it was 2001
44. 1:50Eileen had been on death row for about
45. 1:52eight years and suddenly she's back in
46. 1:55the news
47. 1:56and I killed them as cold as ice and I'd
48. 2:00do it again to nine oh I'd kill another
49. 2:02person cuz I've paid in humans time I
50. 2:05leave fires her defense team and ends
51. 2:08all of our appeals now she changes a
52. 2:11story and says she killed in cold blood
53. 2:13she volunteered to die no sense and keep
54. 2:16it keepin me alive because I just would
55. 2:18absolutely kill again I've got too much
56. 2:22anger too much hatred in me now she is
57. 2:25recanting her original claims that it
58. 2:27was all in self-defense
59. 2:28she had just finally given up completely
60. 2:33she was just done she said I have no
61. 2:36chance for anyone to believe me on
62. 2:38anything then just let me go but I
63. 2:41didn't believe that in her heart she
64. 2:43really wanted to die
65. 2:44attorneys and activists claim Wuornos is
66. 2:46mentally ill too unstable to face the
67. 2:49death penalty I've been practicing for
68. 2:5144 years and I was a prosecutor for a
69. 2:53number of years that was the first time
70. 2:54I've seen a defendant actually walk in
71. 2:56and saying I want to drop all my Appeals
72. 2:58I want to be sentenced I deserve to be
73. 3:01sentenced to death her attorneys argued
74. 3:03that Eileen was not fit to make this
75. 3:06decision and she wasn't but
76. 3:08court-appointed psychologist allowed
77. 3:10[Music]
78. 3:16cuz what she done she knew she wasn't
79. 3:19gonna get out of this Hawaii prolong it
80. 3:21keep going on it she wanted to go to
81. 3:22heaven she had me write and everybody
82. 3:25governors and everything please execute
83. 3:27her in her words and scented her mail in
84. 3:29her letters for her Aileen Wuornos wrote
85. 3:32a handwritten 23 page letter to the
86. 3:35Florida Supreme Court Florida Supreme
87. 3:37Court treated MS minoes as letter like a
88. 3:41petition for writ of habeas corpus and
89. 3:43that's the legal term for a pleading you
90. 3:46would file if you're being housed and
91. 3:49there's something wrong with the
92. 3:52treatment you're receiving while you're
93. 3:53being housed in the prison system so
94. 3:56that's how I got involved with the case
95. 3:57I'm Rob single I represented Aileen
96. 4:01Wuornos in 2002 after she was placed on
97. 4:04death row what Aileen Wuornos wanted was
98. 4:06to be executed as soon as possible but
99. 4:09while she was waiting to be executed she
100. 4:12wanted to be treated humanely some of
101. 4:15her complaints included tampering with
102. 4:17her food people saying certain things
103. 4:19for the purpose of agitating her the way
104. 4:22I viewed her claims is that if they were
105. 4:24true then there were some real issues
106. 4:27with the treatment of the women on death
107. 4:30row by the prison guards but if they
108. 4:32weren't true then it was evidence of
109. 4:34delusional behavior which means that
110. 4:36Aileen Wuornos wasn't competent to be
111. 4:38executed
112. 4:40[Music]