Grocery store butcher who fed his drug dealer’s body to alligators is set to be executed soon

 A man convicted of murder and rape, known as Gary "The Butcher" Simmons, is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi today, even as his attorneys filed a last-minute motion Tuesday to halt the execution, Gulf Live reported. The motion says that Simmons' previous attorney did a poor job of helping him, eventually abandoning his client. The motion also asks that Simmons be allowed to spend more time with a forensic psychologist. 

Simmons' lawyers said that he also has substance abuse problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and "mild executive-level brain dysfunction," the Associated Press reported. 

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Simmons, a former grocery store butcher, was convicted of murdering Jeffery Wolfe in 1996. Wolfe and his girlfriend had driven from Houston to Mississippi to collect a drug debt of about $20,000 from Simmons, Reuters reported. But Simmons and his accomplice Timothy Milano wouldn't pay. An argument then broke out, and Milano fatally shot Wolfe. Afterward, Simmons tied up Wolfe's girlfriend, raped and her told her that "her life depended on how well she performed sexually," according to Reuters.

After the rape, Simmons put Wolfe's girlfriend into a metal box. He then went to the bathroom, cut up Wolfe's body with a knife from work, and then spread the remains in an alligator-infested bayou. Wolfe's girlfriend managed to escape and call the police from a neighbor's house, Reuters reported. Simmons is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Mississippi time. 

Milano was also convicted of the murder and has been sentenced to life in prison, Gulf Live reported.