Man convicted of killing gay men during crime spree to be executed

A tree casts a shadow on a wall behind on a man walking along a footpath on a winter day in central Sydney, Australia, July 18, 2017. [Reuters]

A man convicted of targeting three gay men who had befriended him before he bludgeoned and suffocated them during an eight-month crime spree in 1994 is scheduled to be executed in Florida on Thursday.