A death row inmate executed for the 1994 rape and murder of a young mother declined his final meal before being put to death by lethal injection, his spiritual adviser tells the Daily Mail.
Anthony Wainwright, 54, had been so terrified of dying in the days leading up to his execution that Reverend Jeff Hood flew from Arkansas to Florida to be by his side in his final hours.
It was during those hours that Wainwright found ‘perfect peace’ with his impending fate, no longer seeing his death as a definitive end but rather as a new beginning.
‘He was ready to get out of prison,’ Hood told DailyMail.com. ‘I kept on telling him that this was his release date.’
After finding his inner peace, Wainwright decided to forgo the long-standing ritual of a last meal.
