Wainwright executed for Hamilton County murder

Jason Futch  [email protected] On April 27, 1994, 23-year-old Carmen Gabriella Gayheart was forced to contemplate her life before being brutally raped, strangled and murdered by Anthony Floyd Wainwright and his accomplice, Richard Hamilton. For 31 years, Wainwright fought to stay alive within the walls of the Florida Department of Corrections, hoping appeals would commute his death sentence. However, on Tuesday, June 10, his execution was carried out. Wainwright was convicted and sentenced to death for the April 1994 brutal homicide of Gayheart, a South Florida native who had moved to Fort White with her husband shortly after their marriage. She was enrolled at Lake