Justice Sonia Sotomayor last night called part of Florida’s capital punishment system “Kafkaesque,” but she still joined her U.S. Supreme Court colleagues in allowing the Sunshine State to carry out an execution under that system.
The justice said she’d be up for reviewing Florida’s system in a future case, but that Gary Ray Bowles’ appeal wasn’t the right one in which to take on the state’s regime that blocks certain defendants from pressing intellectual disability claims.
The high court’s rejection allowed the state to execute the 57-year-old serial killer, who preyed on gay men on the East Coast in the ...
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