Oklahoma man dies by lethal injection in the nation's final execution of 2024

[Emile]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.

Kevin Ray Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution of the year, and it took place on Underwood’s 45th birthday.

Oklahoma uses a three-drug lethal injection process that begins with the sedative midazolam followed by a second drug that paralyzes the inmate and a third that stops their heart.

Underwood, a former grocery store worker, was sentenced to die for killing Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006. He admitted to luring Jamie into his apartment and beating her over the head with a cutting board before suffocating and sexually assaulting her. He told investigators that he nearly beheaded Jamie in his bathtub before abandoning his plans to eat her.

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[Callie1979]

1. Perfect candidate for execution. WHY did it take 18 YEARS.

[marble falls]

2. Executing the mentally ill. Not a good look.

[Botany]

3. 18 years later?

I am against the death penalty but dragging the man slowly down a gravel road behind a horse
and stopping to pour salt on his wounds is not penalty enough for what he did. Mentally ill no
doubt but if we have this law on the books then this is a case for it.

[SCantiGOP]

4. You just endorsed executing mentally ill people

[Botany]

6. I know it is a contradiction and the man was mentally ill but just the heinous nature of his crimes ...

… made me go to the dark side.

[Callie1979]

5. Yep. And mentally ill folks are rarely violent to this level.

But that excuse is always brought up in DP cases. And the old standby of "low IQ"