1. Judy Buenoano was convicted of the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend, John Gentry.
20 Facts About Judy Buenoano
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Judy Buenoano is believed to have been involved in a 1974 murder in Alabama, and in the 1980 death of yet another boyfriend, Gerald Dossett.
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Judy Buenoano was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848, or electrocuted in the United States since 1976.
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Judy Buenoano was born Judias Welty in Quanah, Texas, on April 4,1943.
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Judy Buenoano's mother died when she was four, and she and her younger brother, Robert, were sent to live with her grandparents.
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Judy Buenoano gave birth to Michael, a son, the following year.
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Judy Buenoano died on September 16,1971, in Orlando, Florida.
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Judy Buenoano's death was initially believed to be due to natural causes.
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In 1979, Judy Buenoano's son Michael, whom she resented throughout his life due to him being born out of wedlock, became severely ill, with symptoms including paraplegia.
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On May 13,1980, Judy Buenoano took Michael out in a canoe in Milton, Florida; the canoe rolled, and Michael, with no life jacket and weighed down by his arm and leg braces, drowned.
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In 1983, Judy Buenoano was in a relationship with a wallpaper businessman named John Gentry.
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Authorities found that the "vitamin pills" that Judy Buenoano had been giving Gentry contained arsenic and paraformaldehyde.
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In 1984, Judy Buenoano was convicted for the murder of her son Michael and the attempted murder of Gentry.
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Judy Buenoano received a 12-year sentence for the Gentry case, and a life sentence for the Michael Buenoano case.
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Judy Buenoano was convicted of multiple counts of grand theft.
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Judy Buenoano is thought to have committed multiple acts of arson.
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Judy Buenoano was incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution's death row for women.
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On March 30,1998, Judy Buenoano was executed in the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
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Judy Buenoano was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848.
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Judy Buenoano was the first woman in the United States to be electrocuted since 1976.