Two men were executed in the U.S. on Tuesday in what is now the nation's fourth double execution of the year.
Florida executed Anthony Wainwright by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. ET for the 1994 rape and murder of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, a married mother of two and nursing student who was kidnapped in broad daylight in a grocery store parking lot.
Less than an hour later, Alabama used the controversial nitrogen gas method to execute Gregory Hunt for the 1988 rape and murder of 32-year-old Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for a month.
"It seems to me there's enough days in the year that executions shouldn't have to be stacked on top of each other," said the Rev. Jeff Hood, a death row spiritual adviser who has witnessed nine executions and said he had to make an "unfathomable" choice between whether to be in person to support Wainwright in Florida or Hunt in Alabama.
He chose to be in the death chamber with Wainwright.
