DeSantis signs death warrant for Florida convicted killer

DeSantis signs death warrant for Florida convicted killer

A convicted killer has one month to live, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has just signed a death warrant for Anthony Wainwright, who was convicted of kidnapping a woman in 1994 from a Winn-Dixie supermarket parking lot in Lake City and raping and murdering her in rural Hamilton County.

DeSantis signs death warrant for Florida’s sixth scheduled execution this year

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for Anthony Wainwright, who was convicted of kidnapping a woman in 1994 from a Winn-Dixie supermarket parking lot in Lake City and raping and murdering her in rural Hamilton County. Wainwright, who had escaped from a North Carolina prison days before killing 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on June 10 at Florida State Prison. A 1995 s…