Posted on 12/20/2024 6:56:19 AM PST by Red Badger
The state of Oklahoma executed on Thursday a man who admitted to sexually assaulting and killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a sick cannibalistic fantasy, despite his defense team trying to blame the horrific acts on autism and mental health issues.
Kevin Ray Underwood, who turned 45 on the day he was put to death by lethal injection, became the nation’s final legal execution of 2024 for his 2006 crimes against little Jamie Rose Bolin, CBS News reported.
Underwood, who was pronounced dead shortly after 10:00 a.m. local time at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, confessed to luring Jamie into his home before beating, suffocating, and sexually assaulting her.
“He told investigators that he nearly beheaded the girl in his bathtub before abandoning his plans to eat her,” the outlet reported.
During the trial, the jury “quickly” found Underwood guilty and the judge subsequently sentenced him to death, according to a local ABC affiliate.
According to the convict’s attorneys, he suffered from autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and various other mental health issues.
A petition to stop his execution organized by Death Penalty Action argued that the “state-sanctioned murder of someone like Kevin, a mentally ill individual on the autism spectrum, is irreversible and takes us further away from what we want most: a fair, effective, and rehabilitative justice system.”
Despite the lawyers’ arguments and the petition garnering nearly 6,000 signatures, the members of the clemency board rejected their pleas last week.
“Whatever deviance of the mind led Underwood to abduct, beat, suffocate, sexually abuse and nearly decapitate Jamie cannot be laid at the feet of depression, anxiety or (autism),” prosecutors wrote in their opposition to the killer’s request for clemency, obtained by CBS.
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Baker, a black maid, killed her white employer in self-defense after months of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of him and his son. An all-white jury found her guilty the same day the trial began and the death penalty was automatic.
In 2005 the Georgia parole board gave her a full posthumous pardon, which made everything okay.
He committed the crime in 2006. I would’ve liked to seen them in the electric chair by 2008 tops. He openly admitted to it and as soon as he’s cleared mentally that should’ve been it see you later. The fact that this had to happen in 2024 irritates me.
I remember a local murder in Oklahoma. the perp was sentenced to death. About a month after the date for execution the state realized they had forgotten to execute him so they resentenced him to life in prison.
Now a person sentenced to death often gets a chance to die of old age waiting for the execution date.
Happy birthday A-hole. You’ll never have another one. Scratch one more sick POS but not soon enough.
The particular county seat, not the state.
“The particular county seat, not the state.”
For you, I recommend:
Electric chair and a dry sponge?
Forgot?????..........
Yeah, like that Texas farmer who beat to death the “migrant” who raped his five year old daughter behind the barn. He was exonerated by the court.
I noticed you did not wish him many more!
Not on this earth, but an infinite number in hell.
I don't think he'll be able to blow out the candles where he's going...
Yep. they simply forgot him.
GREAT.
They need to find a way to speed up these appeals. Shouldn’t have to wait decades to execute someone
Somehow when I woke up this morning, I knew it was gonna be a good day!!!
Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Baker
From the story, a New York busybody petitioned the court that the method of execution was not the electric chair when the guy was sentenced. The Florida Supreme Court agreed, resulting in the late 1927 hanging, after the method was changed in 1924.
Don’t know which is better, but I think I would prefer a proper hanging.
Perhaps sedation followed by a proper hanging?
Article is illustrated with a photo of George Stepanopolous.
Funny.
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