An “extremely evil” Oklahoma inmate facing execution for torturing and murdering a little girl as part of a cannibalistic fantasy admitted during a hearing that he deserved to die, in which a final clemency petition was rejected. Was done.
Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, made the shocking statement before the state Pardon and Parole Board, which voted unanimously against his pardon on Friday, more than a decade after he was convicted of murdering 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin .
In 2006, Underwood lured a neighbor girl to his Purcell apartment, hit her over the head with a cutting board, and then strangled her.
He admitted that the horrific murder, in which he nearly decapitated little Jamie in her bathtub, was part of a twisted cannibalistic and sexual fantasy, although he did not eat the young girl.
She reportedly said that at that time he had tried to have sex with her corpse as part of his sick fantasy.
“I believe that even though I don’t want to die… I deserve to do what I did,” he said in a video from jail on Friday. According to the oklahomaan. “And if my death…could change what I did, I would die happily.”
Underwood also apologized to the victim’s family and his own family.
He added, “I can’t believe I did those things.”
“I am no longer the person I was in the weeks leading up to that incident.”
Attorney General Gentner Drummond “commended the Board voting to deny clemency for this extremely evil monster and ensuring that justice will be served for Jamie Rose Bolin.”
Underwood’s legal team argued that she should not be given the death penalty because she has a long list of mental health problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and deviant behavior. Sexual paraphilias are included.
An assistant attorney general rejected the idea that mental health issues should excuse brutal treatment.
“Mr. Underwood chose Jamie because he thought she was small and defenseless and easy prey,” Aspen Layman said.
“And while we, as an enlightened society, may give grace to those struggling with mental illness, we can still expect them to desist from planning the murder, rape, torture, and cannibalism of 10-year-old little girls. Avoid.”
Underwood will be given a lethal injection of three drugs Thursday for his scheduled death, which will be the 25th and final execution in the US this year.
It is scheduled for the day After Joseph Corcoran was executed by lethal injection in Indiana in July 1997 for the murders of four people, including his brother and sister’s fiancé.
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