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Serial killer who targeted gay men executed in Florida after eating hearty last meal
FOX News ^ | 08/23/2019 | By Danielle Wallace

Posted on 08/23/2019 11:58:51 AM PDT by Red Badger

A mass murderer known as the “I-95 killer,” who spent the majority of 1994 targeting gay men -- including a Navy World War II veteran -- ate three burgers, fries and bacon before he was executed late Thursday in Florida.

Gary Ray Bowles, 57, was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. Thursday evening after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said. Bowles had already eaten his last meal by 3 p.m. that afternoon, prison officials told WJXT.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal filed by Bowles’ attorneys earlier Thursday that argued their client was not mentally fit to receive the death penalty, clearing the way for his execution to proceed as planned.

Bowles was condemned to die for his murder conviction in the 1994 slaying of Walter Hinton, a 42-year-old who was strangled and had his head smashed with a concrete block, in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. That was one of the six known killings that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor that year and earned him the nickname of the "I-95 killer." In each case, Bowles had a signature: He stuffed the victims’ throats with objects, including rags, toilet paper, dirt, leaves — even a sex toy.

Police were on Bowles' trail after his first killing in 1994 in Daytona Beach. Bowles left investigators a slew of evidence, including a probation document left at the scene and ATM footage showing him trying to withdraw money from the victim, John Hardy Roberts,’ bank account.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Delaware; US: Florida; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: clowncar; deathrow; delaware; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; execution; floridaman; garyraybowles; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; i95; i95killer; indiana; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; mikepence; petebuttigieg; southbend
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1 posted on 08/23/2019 11:58:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Somehow I don’t think the usual cast of Death Penalty opponents protested this one.


2 posted on 08/23/2019 11:59:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It has been kinda silent...............


3 posted on 08/23/2019 12:00:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s not a typo. He committed his crimes in 1994

That’s the state of “justice” in America - he pays for his crimes 25 years later


4 posted on 08/23/2019 12:05:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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So he was arrested for these crimes in 1994 and it took untold millions of dollars and 25 years to finally execute him. Our legal system is severely screwed up. This guy should have been executed no less than 24 years ago. A year should be the maximum amount of time these guilty SOBs have to tie up the courts.


5 posted on 08/23/2019 12:07:45 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: Red Badger

How come bad guys all have a middle name of Ray or Lee?


6 posted on 08/23/2019 12:08:02 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: Red Badger

I’m always glad to see the Death Penalty carried out.


7 posted on 08/23/2019 12:08:17 PM PDT by onyx
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To: dfwgator

If I was about to be executed, food would be the last thing on my mind.

A convicted killer who can wolf down food in his final moments on Earth clearly has no conscience and no regrets.


8 posted on 08/23/2019 12:08:20 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Red Badger

Frustrated by his mother’s choice to remain in the marriage, Gary left home to live on the streets. Throughout his youth and adulthood he was able to provide for himself financially by prostituting his body to men.

...

Almost every serial killer is a sexual deviant. A very high proportion are homosexuals.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080529031741/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/gary_bowles/2.html


9 posted on 08/23/2019 12:10:00 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: fireman15

ACLU................


10 posted on 08/23/2019 12:10:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

99% chance faggets molested him when he was a kid...


11 posted on 08/23/2019 12:10:27 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Red Badger
Death Row Inmates live longer in jail than they would have in the wild.
It's good they're off the street but it does not seem like justice.

12 posted on 08/23/2019 12:11:15 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: rexthecat

or Wayne.


13 posted on 08/23/2019 12:14:22 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: elcid1970

my thoughts as well...i’d be too sick to my stomach..


14 posted on 08/23/2019 12:14:45 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: elcid1970
A convicted killer who can wolf down food in his final moments on Earth clearly has no conscience and no regrets.

That's what the Reprobate Mind spoken of in Romans 1:18-32 means.
15 posted on 08/23/2019 12:17:32 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Red Badger

Why does it take 25 YEARS to off these animals? Yeesh!


16 posted on 08/23/2019 12:18:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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[If I was about to be executed, food would be the last thing on my mind.

A convicted killer who can wolf down food in his final moments on Earth clearly has no conscience and no regrets.]


A good chunk of how we feel about killing is a product of socialization. Lions don’t feel guilt about killing other lions. Hunters don’t feel guilty about killing and dressing their quarry. For sociopaths, killing their victims is no different from shooting a squirrel. In fact, some may feel twinges of guilt from killing a squirrel they would not have from killing a human. Hitler was a dog lover. Jews, not so much.


17 posted on 08/23/2019 12:23:05 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Faggets and women...


18 posted on 08/23/2019 12:26:32 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

ACLU.................


19 posted on 08/23/2019 12:27:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: PGR88
That’s the state of “justice” in America - he pays for his crimes 25 years later

It's even worse than that. They are more likely to die of natural causes on Death Row than to be executed.

20 posted on 08/23/2019 12:31:00 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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