She would be executed 3 months later in March 1998
dated 12/23/97 this Final Christmas card Judi Buenoano writes: ...the Governor signed a lot of Death Warrent including Jones and Stano, the last one Me plus a fellow from Michigan. I’m last set for March 30th 1998. This comes with the original mailing envelope postmarked 29 December 1997. This would be a her final Christmas card. She also mentions the transition to lethal injection planned by the State of Florida. Signed Merry Christmas to you all. Judi Anna.
Judias Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris) (April 4, 1943 – March 30, 1998) was a convicted murderer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son Michael Buenoano and of the 1983 attempted murder of her fiancé John Gentry. She is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978 death of her boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris in Colorado; however, by the time authorities made the connection between Buenoano and Morris, she had already been sentenced to death in the state of Florida.