Man Convicted of Abducting, Raping and Killing a Young Woman in 1994 Set to Be Executed in Florida

A Florida guy convicted of raping and killing a girl 30 years in the past after he abducted her from a Winn-Dixie car parking zone is scheduled to be carried out Tuesday.

Anthony Wainwright, 54, is scheduled for a deadly injection Tuesday night time at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Fla.

Wainwright used to be convicted of the April 1994 killing of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart and the jury unanimously advisable that he be sentenced to dying, in step with court docket paperwork acquired by means of PEOPLE.

In April 1994, Wainwright and his crime spouse, Richard Hamilton, escaped from a jail in North Carolina, stole weapons and a automobile and drove to Florida, in step with his court docket paperwork.

On April 27, 1994, the pair faced Gayheart, a tender mom or two, at gunpoint as she loaded groceries into her automobile. They stole her automobile and took off with Gayheart. Wainwright and Hamilton raped Gayheart within the backseat and attempted to strangle her prior to capturing her two times behind the pinnacle, in step with the paperwork. 

Wainwright and Hamilton had been arrested day after today in Mississippi following a shootout with police, the court docket paperwork mentioned. 

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a number of of Wainwright’s appeals and maintained that he’ll be carried out Tuesday, round 6 p.m, in step with his dying warrant signed by means of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 

Gayheart’s sister, Maria David, informed the AP that they’ve waited a ways too lengthy for justice. “It’s ridiculous how many appeals they get,” David informed the opening. “You have to relive it again because they have to tell the whole story again.” 

David informed the AP that she turned into “overcome with emotion” when the governor signed the dying warrant for Wainwright. Both her oldsters died whilst looking ahead to him to be sentenced to dying; she plans to be there for the day of Wainwright’s execution. 

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David informed the opening that she needs her sister to be remembered and for others to understand that she used to be beloved. 

“There’s nothing that would keep me from seeing this all the way through,” she mentioned. “I’m taking a look ahead to getting the final items of forms that say he’s been carried out to place within the e-book and not having to take into consideration Anthony Wainwright ever once more. 

Wainwright would be the 6th particular person to be carried out in Florida this 12 months, in step with the Death Penalty Information Center.