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The prostitute and murderer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in Florida in October, 2002, is difficult to look at without flinching. She appears in Nick Broomfield's documentary "Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer," which was filmed just before she died. Broomfield caught her in high redemption mode. "I cannot go into that chamber as a liar," she says. "I have to clear my conscience and leave my spirit in the name of Jesus Christ." Speaking directly to Broomfield, Wuornos takes back the testimony she offered at her 1992 trial. She now says that when she shot seven men she was not, as she had earlier claimed, acting in self-defense. She killed the men--johns who ...