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In re Anthony Floyd Wainwright
What did the Court do?
The Court denied the request on June 9, 2025 and refused to halt the execution.
Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.
What's being asked
Anthony Floyd Wainwright, a Florida prisoner under a death sentence, asked the Supreme Court to pause his execution, scheduled for June 10, 2025. He requested the pause while the Court considered his habeas petition (a prisoner’s challenge to being locked up). He says Florida withheld evidence that jailhouse informants expected sentencing leniency for testifying at his joint trial with a co-defendant. The Florida Supreme Court denied his request for relief on June 3.
What the Court did
The Court refused to pause Wainwright’s execution and denied his habeas petition (a prisoner’s challenge to being locked up). The order gives no explanation, and the Court did not publish how the justices voted.
What it means
The refusal to grant a temporary pause does not by itself decide the underlying dispute; the Court also denied Wainwright’s habeas petition. No related case for full review is listed, the application was not set for argument, and the record gives no lower-court status.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1204. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.