Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls have asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution next week, arguing he should be spared because he is intellectually disabled and was 19 years old at the time he murdered two people in Okaloosa County.

The request centers, at least in part, on arguments that executing Walls, 58, would violate the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. As an example, the attorneys pointed to Walls having IQ scores of 72 and 74 as an adult.

"The record is rich with evidence of Mr. Walls' intellectual disability," the attorneys wrote in a brief Saturday. "Not only does Mr. Walls have qualifying IQ scores, but there is also evidence of his subaverage functioning and issues with adaptive functioning. This (Su

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