Florida's 'Black Widow' executed

The hearse leaves the compound Monday in Starke

March 30, 1998
Web posted at: 9:28 a.m. EST (1428 GMT)

STARKE, Florida (CNN) -- Fifty-four-year-old Judy Buenoano, known as the "Black Widow," was executed in Florida's electric chair Monday morning for poisoning her husband in 1971.

"The prisoner was pronounced dead at 7:13 a.m. EST (1213 GMT)," said Rhonda Horler, a prison spokeswoman who witnessed the execution. "She made no final statement."

Buenoano, who was given the nickname by a Florida prosecutor who said she preyed off her mates and her young, was the first woman executed in Florida since 1848, and the third executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Eyewitness to the execution Gene Morris, spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections, describes the scene
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Jeanne Eaton, Buenoano's cousin, describes the last visitation
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• Botched execution prompts more electric-chair scrutiny - March 26, 1997

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