Serial Killer Says Disability Should Halt Tonight’s Execution

Florida is set to execute serial killer Gary Ray Bowles on Thursday night, but he says his intellectual disability should keep him alive.

Yet Bowles, who brutally murdered six gay men in 1994, is pressing a stay application before a conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority that’s been increasingly skeptical of “last-minute” filings from death row prisoners.

So he’s trying to flip the delay issue on its head as his Sunshine State execution nears.

The 57-year-old’s intellectual disability claim “had been pending for nearly two years when the Governor signed his death warrant,” he says in his Aug. 16 filing. ...