Richard Hamilton is a white man who has
been on death row in the state of Florida since 06/12/95.
Crime
He was convicted of Premeditated 1st
Degree Murder, committed on 04/27/94.
Richard Hamilton and Anthony Wainwright escaped from a North Carolina
prison, stole guns and a Cadillac, and headed for Florida. When the
car overheated, April 27, 1994, in Lake City, Florida, they abducted
Carmen Gayheart, a young mother of two, at gunpoint from a Winn-Dixie
parking lot as she loaded groceries into her Ford Bronco. The men
stole the Bronco and proceeded north on I-75. They raped, strangled, and
executed Gayheart by shooting her twice in the back of the head. The
men were arrested the next day in Mississippi following a shootout with a
trooper.Hamilton gave several statements to police wherein he admitted kidnapping, robbing, and raping Gayheart, but he claimed Wainwright strangled and shot her. Wainwright, on the other hand, admitted participating in the kidnapping and robbery, but asserted that Hamilton raped and killed her. Hamilton was charged with first-degree murder, sexual battery, robbery, and kidnapping, all with a firearm, and was found guilty as charged. During the penalty phase, Hamilton called two relatives and a friend, who testified that he grew up in a dysfunctional family in a poor neighborhood, and was shot in the eye with a BB gun as a child.
Address
You can write to this inmate
at:
Hamilton, Richard 123846
PO Box 23608
Tampa, FL 33623
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