Florida executed a man on Dec. 18 who was convicted of killing a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion 38 years ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a reprieve earlier in the day.
The condemned man, Frank Athen Walls, had filed an emergency application with the court days earlier, arguing that he was intellectually disabled and that lower courts failed to properly consider his condition.
Authorities pronounced Walls, 58, dead at 6:11 p.m. after he received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed his death warrant on Nov. 18.
Before the injection was administered, Walls apologized, according to a spokesman for DeSantis….