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June execution is scheduled for a Florida man convicted of raping and killing a woman
WESH ^

Posted on 05/25/2025 7:44:49 AM PDT by TheDon

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar has been scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the seventh this year.

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, is set to die by lethal injection June 24 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke.

Gudinas was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death for the murder of Michelle McGrath.

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Looks like Florida is getting it done, if a few decades late...
1 posted on 05/25/2025 7:44:49 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

30 years?? Disgusting.


2 posted on 05/25/2025 7:47:55 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Victim was 27 when he killed her. He’s been on death row longer than she lived.


3 posted on 05/25/2025 7:50:01 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: TheDon

Who’s the one they’re killing June 10th?


4 posted on 05/25/2025 7:51:54 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: montag813

Used to be they were often executed less than 2 months after the crime.


5 posted on 05/25/2025 7:53:06 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: TheDon

Florida government officials and court officials have allowed this convicted and sentenced murdering rapist to continue to steal oxygen for 30 years. That itself should be considered a crime against the state of Florida.


6 posted on 05/25/2025 7:53:46 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: TheDon
To paraphrase what Ron White said about Texas:
"You come here and kill someone in [Florida], we'll kill you back!"

About damn time!

7 posted on 05/25/2025 7:56:30 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: spacejunkie2001

If you read the post the name of the murderer who will be executed is in second paragraph


8 posted on 05/25/2025 7:57:19 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: TheDon

I have seen the electric chair in the Florida State Prison in Starke, FL. No...not as a resident. I know what everyone is thinking. Why would you think that? It was during a college criminal justice class tour.


9 posted on 05/25/2025 7:59:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: xxqqzz

I went to high school with a guy that’s been on Florida’s death row since 1995.


10 posted on 05/25/2025 8:04:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: TheDon

Even with the Brave browser the web site is not worth looking at.


11 posted on 05/25/2025 8:13:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: spacejunkie2001

On June 10, Anthony Wainwright, 54, is scheduled to die for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Carmen Gayheart in 1994. Gayheart was abducted from a grocery store parking lot in Lake City.


12 posted on 05/25/2025 8:15:34 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Carmen Gayheart, a 23-year-old nursing student and mother of two, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered on April 27, 1994, in Hamilton County, Florida. She was abducted from a Winn-Dixie parking lot in Lake City, Florida, by two men who had escaped from a prison in North Carolina a few days earlier. The killers, Anthony Floyd Wainwright and Richard Eugene Hamilton, were both found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery, and sexual battery. Hamilton died on death row in January 2023, while Wainwright is scheduled to be executed on June 10, 2025.

Horrifying.


13 posted on 05/25/2025 8:19:10 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

An article from 2014. Worth a read. Glad the governor is signing the death warrants. Poor families.

https://www.wpbf.com/article/grief-stricken-family-still-waiting-for-daughter-s-killers-to-be-executed-20-years-later/1322141


14 posted on 05/25/2025 8:26:37 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: TheDon

Home of Old Sparky.


15 posted on 05/25/2025 8:34:44 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Joe 6-pack


16 posted on 05/25/2025 8:41:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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There’s a lot of things wrong with Florida. That a killer can actually grow old on death row here is just one of them.


17 posted on 05/25/2025 8:44:13 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: montag813

Justice delayed is justice denied.


18 posted on 05/25/2025 8:56:49 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: RWGinger

if YOU read the article it only tells us the 6/24 murderer. Details are important


19 posted on 05/25/2025 9:08:56 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: TheDon

Thanks for this. It IS horrifying. I want to see more death row convictions and faster completion


20 posted on 05/25/2025 9:15:08 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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