Oklahoma man Kevin Ray Underwood was put to dying by deadly injection on Thursday within the nation’s twenty fifth and last execution of the 12 months.
Underwood was pronounced lifeless at 10:14 a.m. on the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, info supplied by the Oklahoma Division of Corrections (ODOC) to Fox Information Digital states. He killed a 10-year-old lady again in 2006 as a part of a cannibalistic fantasy.
Underwood, a former grocery retailer employee, admitted to luring Jamie Rose Bolin into his condo and beating her over the top with a reducing board earlier than suffocating and sexually assaulting her. He informed investigators that he practically beheaded Jamie in his bathtub earlier than abandoning his plans to eat her.
His final meal was hen fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, pinto beans, a sizzling roll, a cheeseburger and fries with ketchup and “cola from the canteen,” the ODOC mentioned. He acquired it at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday.
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Kevin Ray Underwood seems within the courtroom for his formal sentencing in Purcell, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2008. (AP Photograph/Sue Ogrocki, Pool, File)
Underwood elected to not have a chaplain current within the execution room, in line with the ODOC. He did go for sedatives through the three-chemical protocol deadly injection that came about on his forty fifth birthday.
Native TV station KOCO states witnesses mentioned Underwood apologized for what he did and to the Bolin household. He additionally reportedly mentioned it was “needlessly cruel to my family” to execute him on his birthday and 6 days earlier than Christmas.
No problems have been reported with the execution, witnesses informed KOCO.
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Entrance Gate and Guard Station at Oklahoma State Penitentiary. (Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis through Getty Pictures)
Underwood’s attorneys had argued that he deserved to be spared the dying penalty due to his lengthy historical past of abuse and critical psychological well being points that included autism, obsessive-compulsive dysfunction, bipolar and panic problems, post-traumatic stress dysfunction, schizotypal character dysfunction and numerous deviant sexual paraphilias.
Prosecutors argued that many individuals undergo from psychological sickness, however that doesn’t justify harming youngsters.
In a last-minute request in search of a keep of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court docket, Underwood’s attorneys argued that he deserved a listening to earlier than all 5 members of the board and that the panel violated state legislation and Underwood’s rights by rescheduling the listening to on the final minute after two members of the board resigned. The court docket rejected that bid earlier Thursday morning.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket is seen at sundown. The court docket rejected a bid earlier Thursday morning that might have stayed the execution of Kevin Underwood. (Aaron Schwartz/SIPA USA)
Underwood was convicted in Cleveland County of first-degree homicide on April 3, 2008. He was 28 years previous when the ODOC acquired him on April 7, 2008.
Oklahoma has executed 206 males and three ladies since 1915, info from the ODOC states.
At present, 32 males and one girl are on dying row in Oklahoma.
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“Today’s event and the circumstances that led to it have affected many people – especially the family of 10-year-old Jame Rose Bolin,” a press release from ODOC Director Steven Harpe mentioned. “As an company, we carried out the court docket’s orders in line with our excessive requirements of professionalism and respect for these in our custody, making certain dignity for everybody concerned within the course of.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
