Gary Ray Bowles a 57-year-old man who admitted to killing
six gay men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland has been executed.
Bowles confessed to
all six killings, but has been tried, convicted and sentenced to death for just
one - that of Walter Hinton, who was killed in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
He met his victims in bars and, in each case, the victims
were found with objects shoved down their throats.
These included a sex toy, toilet paper and a towel,
prosecutors said.
Hinton was the last of the six murders, carried out in a
gruesome eight-month period across Florida, Georgia and Maryland.
Investigators say Bowles left an abusive household as a
child and worked as a prostitute to gay men for a number of years before
beginning his killing spree.
After two jail
sentences for grand theft, robbery, assault and rape, he moved to Daytona Beach
in 1993.
During this time he
continued to work as a prostitute, and was living with a girlfriend who left
him after discovering his sex work.
He later told
authorities that he blamed gay men for their break-up, and was angered to learn
that his girlfriend had done an abortion.
He is the 13th person to be executed in the US so far this
year, the Death Penalty Information Center says.
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