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    Gary Ray Bowles - Florida Execution - August 22, 2019




    Summary of Offense:

    Gary Ray Bowles was convicted and sentenced to death for the November 16, 1994 murder of Walter Hinton.

    Gary Bowles met Walter Hinton in November of 1994. Bowles consented to helping Hinton move some of his things from Georgia to his mobile home in Jacksonville and, in exchange, Hinton would allow Bowles to live with him there. On the evening of November 16, 1994, Bowles accompanied Hinton to the train station to drop off a friend. Earlier in the evening, the three men had smoked marijuana and had a few beers. Upon returning home, Hinton went directly to sleep, but Bowles stayed up and continued to drink. Bowles later confessed that at some point during the night, he just “snapped.” Bowles went outside and retrieved a large concrete block. He brought the block inside and sat it upon the table. Moments later, he took the block into Hinton’s room and dropped it on his head as he lay sleeping. The block fractured Hinton’s cheek to his jaw. After the blow, Hinton was conscious and fell from his bed. Bowles then began to strangle him. He then stuffed toilet paper and a rag down Hinton’s throat. Medical examiners’ reports indicated that Hinton died from asphyxiation. Bowles was arrested for the murder on November 22, 1994 and subsequently confessed to the crime.

    Bowles was resentenced to death in Duval County on September 7, 1999.

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    On June 18, 2010, Bowles was denied a Certificate of Appealability by the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/201010284.pdf

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    Bowles filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court on September 16, 2010, which was denied on November 29, 2010.

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    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    Death Warrant Signed for Gary Ray Bowles

    BREAKING: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs second Death Warrant for man who admitted to murdering gay men.

    Gary Ray Bowles is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison Thursday, August 22 at 6 p.m.

    Prosecutors say Gary Bowles professed hatred toward the LGBTQ community and targeted gay men as part of his series of five murders across Florida, Georgia, and Maryland.

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    I'm as thrilled as anyone that DeSantis is proving to be a champion of justice, but why not schedule this in July? FL will probably grease three people this year total.

    19 days after the first execution has to be the fastest ever.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    Bowles just barely skipped Ring. His sentence was finalized on June 17 while Ring was decided on the 24 of 2002.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    I'm as thrilled as anyone that DeSantis is proving to be a champion of justice, but why not schedule this in July? FL will probably grease three people this year total.

    19 days after the first execution has to be the fastest ever.
    Florida Supreme Court takes July as a vacation month.

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    Florida has executed in July before. Eddie Davis was in July 2014. Is this rule something that was not present in 2014?

    Mike, Bowles was a unanimous recommendation so it wouldn't have mattered.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    It's going to matter when he appeals this to SCOTUS. Already see the lügenpresse headlines. "Mentally Ill man set to die because of a 8 day gap."
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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