周四，连环杀手加里·雷·鲍尔斯在佛罗里达州立监狱被处决，20世纪90年代中期，在八个月的时间里杀害了六名同性恋男子。
在他死后向记者宣读的最后一句话中，这位57岁的囚犯为“我造成的所有痛苦和折磨”道歉
他还对母亲说，他为自己的罪行感到抱歉:“不得不面对你的儿子被称为怪物是可怕的。非常抱歉。我从未想过这是我的生活。你不会有一天醒来就决定成为连环杀手。”
据报道，鲍尔斯的最后一餐包括三个芝士汉堡和一份薯条杰克逊维尔新闻4。
在死囚区服刑20年后，加里·鲍尔斯于2019年8月22日被处决。
绰号“95号州际公路黑仔”的鲍尔斯承认在1994年3月至11月间在东海岸杀害了六名男子。他在同性恋酒吧遇到了他的大部分受害者，向他们提供性以换取金钱和住处，并勒死或重击他们，窃取他们的信用卡。警方在代托纳海滩第一名受害者死亡现场发现了鲍尔斯的指纹和缓刑记录。监控录像还捕捉到鲍尔斯试图使用该男子的自动提款卡。
鲍尔斯出现了美国头号通缉犯就在他因涉嫌谋杀最后一名受害者沃尔特·辛顿而被带进审讯的前三天，他多次被列入联邦调查局的通缉名单。
杰克逊维尔审判鲍尔斯的检察官伯尼·德拉里奥达说:“每起谋杀都很残忍，告诉了代托纳海滩新闻-期刊。“这不是瞬间死亡，就像有人被枪击中而死...这是一场生死攸关的斗争。”
辛顿的头被一个40磅重的混凝土块砸中了。另一名受害者被发现喉咙里塞着一个性玩具。
加里·鲍尔斯1994年的被捕照片
判刑时，鲍尔斯的律师提到了他麻烦缠身的童年——在他父亲死于黑肺病后，他由母亲和一系列继父抚养——其中一些继父虐待孩子。据称，鲍尔斯14岁时就离家出走，做性工作者赚钱。
1996年夏天，他因谋杀辛顿而被判处死刑，第二年，又承认了两起谋杀。但是在1998年，佛罗里达州最高法院推翻了鲍尔斯的死刑判决，因为他的律师成功地认为检察官将他的反同性恋偏见引入证据是错误的。
一年后，第二个陪审团一致判定鲍尔斯有罪，他再次被关在死囚牢房，在那里度过了过去20年的时光。佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯(Ron DeSantis)于2019年6月11日签署了他的死刑执行令。
鲍尔斯律师的上诉被驳回，包括向佛罗里达州最高法院和美国最高法院的上诉。
计划见证处决的人中有代表希尔顿家族的德拉里奥达。“在这种情况下，受害者的姐姐和母亲都已经死亡，”他说。“这是悲剧的一部分——我们花了很长时间才到达现在的位置。”
自从1976年恢复使用死刑以来，佛罗里达州已经处决了几名臭名昭著的连环杀手，包括泰德·邦迪和艾琳·沃诺斯。截至上周，佛罗里达州仍有342名囚犯在死囚区。
LAST WORDS OF SERIAL KILLER EXECUTED AFTER KILLING SIX GAY MEN: 'YOU DON'T WAKE UP AND DECIDE TO BECOME A SERIAL KILLER'
On Thursday, serial killer Gary Ray Bowles was executed at Florida State Prison, after killing six gay men over an eight-month period in the mid-1990s.
In his final words, read to reporters after his death, the 57-year-old inmate apologized "for all the pain and suffering I have caused."
He also told his mother he was sorry for his crimes: "Having to deal with your son being called a monster is terrible. I'm so very sorry. I never wanted this to be my life. You don't wake up one day and decide to become a serial killer."
Bowles' final meal consisted of three cheeseburgers and a side of french fries, according to News 4 in Jacksonville.
After 20 years on death row, Gary Bowles was executed on Thursday, August 22, 2019.
Nicknamed the "I-95 Killer," Bowles confessed to murdering six men on the East Coast between March and November 1994. He encountered most of his victims in gay bars, offering them sex in return for money and a place to stay, and strangling or bludgeoning them and stealing their credit cards. Police found Bowles' fingerprints and probation records at the scene of his first victim's death in Daytona Beach. Security-camera footage also caught Bowles trying to use the man's ATM card.
Bowles appeared on America's Most Wanted multiple times and made the FBI's Most Wanted List just three days before he was brought in for questioning in connection with the murder of his last victim, Walter Hinton.
"Each of the murders was brutal," Bernie de la Rionda, the Jacksonville prosecutor who tried Bowles, told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. "It was not an instant death, like somebody getting shot and dying from that gunshot... It was a life-and-death struggle."
Hinton's head was bashed in with a 40-pound concrete block. Another victim was found with a sex toy jammed down his throat.
Gary Bowles' arrest photo in 1994
At sentencing, Bowles' attorney brought up his troubled childhood—After his father died of black lung disease, he was raised by his mother and a series of stepfathers—some of whom were abusive. After allegedly fighting back against the last one, Bowles left home at 14, making money as a sex worker.
He was sentenced to death for Hinton's murder in the summer of 1996 and, the following year, pleaded guilty to two more murders. But in 1998, the Florida Supreme Court overturned Bowles' death sentence after his lawyer successfully argued prosecutors were wrong to introduce his anti-gay prejudice into evidence.
A year later, a second jury unanimously convicted Bowles and he was once more on death row, where spent the past 20 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant on June 11, 2019.
Appeals by Bowles' attorney, including ones to the Florida Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court, were denied.
Among those scheduled to witness the execution was De la Rionda, representing Hilton's family. "In this case, the victim's sister and the victim's mother are both deceased," he said. "And that's part of the tragedy—that it has taken so long to get where we are at."
Florida has executed several notorious serial killers since resuming use of the death penalty in 1976, including Ted Bundy and Aileen Wuornos. As of last week, there are 342 inmates still on death row in Florida.
