2 death row inmates executed in Florida, Alabama minutes apart for grisly murders

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening.Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed in Alabama four minutes later Tuesday evening.

It’s the fourth time this year there have been double-executions, according to USA Today.Wainwright, 54, was killed by lethal injection 30 years after he raped and fatally shot mother of two Carmen Gayheart, 23, in Lake City.He was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m.

shortly after the execution got underway.His final words weren’t inaudible from the witness room.

Wainwright and his co-defendant Richard Hamilton, broke out of North Carolina prison and while they were on the run carjacked Gayheart’s blue Ford Bronco in April 1994.The two men forced her into the car at gunpoint and then raped her in the backseat as they drove off.Wainwright and Hamilton, who died on death row, then dragged her from the car and shot her twice in the back of the head.They were captured the next day and convicted in 1995.Gayheart’s sister, Maria David, has kept track of every court hearing and appeal since her loved one’s murder.“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 recently.Wainwright’s legal team tried to convince the US Supreme Court to stop his execution — to no avail — by arguing that his exposure to Agent Orange before he was born led to cognitive and behavioral problems throughout his life, according to CBS Miami.

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