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Gary Ray Bowles, 57, must be executed by lethal injection at 6 pm, said Michelle Glady, director of communications for the Florida Prison Service. He woke up at 4 am and was calm and in a good mood. Her last meal was three cheeseburgers, fries and bacon, she said.
He was also featured later in an episode of the show "The Killer Speaks" of A & E as "I-95 Killer".
Bowles pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 1996 for killing Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, by dropping a 40-pound cement springboard onto his sleepy head. Bowles then strangled him and stuffed him with toilet paper and a rag in his mouth, according to court documents. His document revealed that his body had been found inside his locked house, wrapped in sheets and bedspreads.
A jury sentenced him to death in 1996 for killing Hinton, but the Florida Supreme Court then reversed the death penalty and remanded the case for a new sanctioning phase. Another jury sentenced him to death unanimously in 1999 and since then a series of appeals have been dismissed by the courts that preceded the scheduled execution Thursday.
In addition, he was convicted of first degree murder in 1997 for robbing and killing John Roberts by strangling him and stuffing a rag in his mouth, according to court documents. He was also convicted in 1996 of murder for the murder of Albert Morris in a case where he had beaten, beaten, choked, strangled and tied a towel in his mouth. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for both cases.
Bowles had already been charged several times and had been sentenced to prison for beating and raping his girlfriend in 1982.
"Deliberately terminating Mr. Bowles' life is not necessary," wrote Michael B. Sheedy in the letter. "Society can stay safe from future violent actions through life imprisonment without parole."
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