Florida plans to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot. Anthony Wainwright is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted in the April 1994 killing of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart in Lake City.
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This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, posing with their father, Richard Tortora. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, smiling for the camera. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, smiling for the camera. This photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Anthony Wainwright. This photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Anthony Wainwright. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, with her children, Chad and Jessica. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, with her children, Chad and Jessica. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, posing with their mother, Joanne Tortora. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, posing with their mother, Joanne Tortora. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, posing with their father, Richard Tortora. This undated photo released by Maria David shows her sister, Carmen Gayheart, posing with their father, Richard Tortora. A man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot in Florida is scheduled to be executed Tuesday. Anthony Wainwright, 54, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted in the April 1994 killing of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, a mother of two young children, in Lake City.in Alabama. On Monday an Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution for a man scheduled to be put to death Thursday. Richard Hamilton, the other man convicted in Gayheart’s killing, was also sentenced to death. But he died on death row in January 2023 at the age of 59. Gayheart’s sister, who plans to attend the execution, said three decades is too long to wait for justice. “It’s ridiculous how many appeals they get,” Maria David told The Associated Press, adding that each step of the appeals process reopened her family’s wounds. “You have to relive it again because they have to tell the whole story again.”Scammers are using AI to enroll fake students in online classes, then steal college financial aidWainwright and Hamilton escaped from prison in North Carolina, stole a green Cadillac and burglarized a home the next morning, taking guns and money. Then they drove to Florida and when the Cadillac began to have problems in Lake City, they decided to steal another vehicle. They confronted Gayheart, a community college student, on April 27, 1994, as she loaded groceries into her blue Ford Bronco, according to court documents. They forced her into the vehicle at gunpoint and drove off. They raped her in the backseat and then took her out of the vehicle and tried to strangle her before shooting her twice in the back of the head, court filings say. They dragged her body several dozen yards from the road and drove off.A jury in 1995 convicted Wainwright of murder, kidnapping, robbery and rape and unanimously recommended that he be sentenced to death. Wainwright’s lawyers have filed multiple unsuccessful appeals over the years based on what they said were problems with his trial and evidence that he suffered from brain damage and intellectual disability. Since his execution was scheduled, his lawyers have argued in state and federal court filings that his execution should be put on hold to allow time for courts to hear additional legal arguments in his case. In a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, his lawyers argue that his case has been “marred by critical, systemic failures at virtually every stage and through the signing of his death warrant.” Those failures include flawed DNA evidence that wasn’t disclosed to the defense until after opening statements, erroneous jury instructions, inflammatory and inaccurate closing arguments and missteps by court-appointed lawyers, the filing says. The filing also says that a jailhouse informant who testified at Wainwright’s trial finally admitted last month that he and another informant had testified in exchange for lighter sentences, a fact that had not been disclosed to the defense.David, Gayheart’s sister, said she feels cheated that Hamilton died before the state could execute him. She said she was “overcome with emotion” when she heard the governor had signed a death warrant for Wainwright. Her parents both died while waiting for justice to be served, she said, but she plans to be there to witness the final chapter of her family’s tragedy.Her sister loved animals and surprised her by training to become a nurse rather than a veterinarian, David said. Gayheart was two years younger than her sister but became a mother first, and David said she marveled at her sister’s patience with her young children.Over the years, she has kept a book where she put every court filing, from the initial indictment through the latest appeals. “I’m looking forward to getting the last pieces of paperwork that say he’s been executed to put into the book and never having to think about Anthony Wainwright ever again,” she said.Hurricane Barbara plows forward along western coast of Mexico
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