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TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt next week’s scheduled execution of Frank Walls, turning down arguments that he should be spared because he is intellectually disabled and was 19 years old at the time he murdered two people in Okaloosa County.

Meanwhile Thursday, a separate case filed by Walls’ attorneys remained pending at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That federal-court case raises different arguments to try to prevent the execution.

Walls, 58, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 18 and would become a record 19th Florida inmate put to death this year. He was convicted in the July 22, 1987, murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson, who died of gunshot wounds after Walls broke into their home, ac

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