[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----FLORIDA

[Rick Halperin]

AUGUST 22




FLORIDA----impending execution

Florida serial killer’s execution delayed, waiting appeals ruling


The scheduled execution of a Florida serial killer who targeted older gay men 
awaited a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on his final appeals.

The high court was mulling a last-ditch appeal Thursday from 57-year-old Gary 
Ray Bowles, whose lawyers contended he is too intellectually disabled to be 
executed. Bowles was set to die by lethal injection at the Florida State prison 
in Starke.


The execution was scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday but was delayed while the 
Supreme Court considered his case.

Bowles was condemned for the murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach – 
one of the killings that terrorized the East Coast’s Interstate 95 corridor in 
an eight-month span in 1994.

Hinton was Bowles’ sixth and final known victim in a spree that began in 
Daytona Beach with the slaying of John Hardy Roberts. In between, there were 
victims in Rockville, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta and Nassau County, 
Florida.

(source: Associated Press)