Convicted child sexual abuser and murderer Kevin Underwood has been executed by the state of Oklahoma for murdering Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy.
The execution was carried out Thursday morning by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and he was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m., according to KOCO.
The state uses a three-drug lethal injection process that begins with the sedative midazolam followed by a second drug that paralyzes the inmate and stops his breathing and a third that stops his heart.
It became the fourth execution in the state and 25th in the country this year.
The last meals Underwood ordered were chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, pinto beans, a hot bun and a cheeseburger with fries and ketchup, according to USA today.
Several members of the Bolin family were expected to witness the execution.
Underwood, who was executed on his 45th birthday, admitted luring Jamie to his apartment and hitting her over the head with a cutting board before choking her and sexually assaulting her.
He told investigators he nearly decapitated the girl in her bathtub before abandoning his plans to eat her.
Bolin was discovered two days later in Underwood’s apartment, hiding in his closet in the plastic bathtub.
Convicted child sex murderer Kevin Underwood has been executed by the state of Oklahoma for murdering Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy.
Underwood, who was executed on his 45th birthday, admitted luring Jamie to his apartment and hitting her over the head with a cutting board before choking her and sexually assaulting her.
Last week he made a last attempt to save himself, which was finally rejected.
“Although I do not want to die, I recognize that I deserve it for what I did,” he told the court. ‘If my death could change what I did, I would gladly die.
“I would like to apologize to the victim’s family, my own family and everyone in that room who had to hear the horrible details of what I did.”
The young man’s grieving family also spoke at the clemency hearing arguing against mercy for Underwood.
‘How dare you, Kevin Underwood, ask for mercy? “How dare you look at the courthouse, look at Jamie’s family, and then ask that of us,” said Bolin’s sister, Lori Pate.
—You, Kevin Underwood, expect us to forgive you. He wants us to forgive him for the fact that he intended to consume it.
You beat her like an animal and raped her. You deserve the original sentence and everything that has happened to you.
‘When I was 14 you showed me that monsters aren’t just something made up from story books. They wear our same clothes and walk our same streets.’
The execution was carried out this morning by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and he was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m.
Last week, the murderer made a last attempt to save himself, which was finally rejected.
The young man’s grieving family also spoke at the clemency hearing arguing against mercy for Underwood.
Underwood’s lawyers claimed that her crimes were due to her mental health problems.
Underwood’s lawyers had attempted to argue that he should be forgiven, blaming his heinous crimes on his mental health issues and pornography addiction.
But three board members voted unanimously against recommending clemency, leaving the final decision in the hands of Gov. Kevin Stitt.
“I am pleased that the board voted to deny clemency to this deeply evil monster and ensured that justice will be served for Jamie Rose Bolin,” said State Attorney General Genter Drummond.
“Jamie’s family have waited 18 excruciating years for justice, which will finally come true when this murderer is executed.”
Underwood’s attorneys also argued that she deserved to be spared from death due to her long history of abuse and serious mental health problems that included autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizotypal personality disorder. and various deviant forms. sexual paraphilias.
“Whatever mental deviation led Underwood to kidnap, beat, suffocate, sexually abuse and nearly decapitate Jamie, it cannot be attributed to depression, anxiety or (autism),” prosecutors wrote in their opposition to the Underwood’s clemency request.
“Underwood is dangerous because he is intelligent, organized, and driven by deviant sexual desires rooted in the harm and abuse of others.”