A death row prisoner used his final remarks to criticize the authorities for scheduling his execution on his birthday. This occurred 18 years following his heinous murder of his 10-year-old neighbor, with whom he had dark fantasies about eating.
Kevin Underwood was executed on Thursday morning after sitting on death row for nearly 20 years for torturing and killing Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006.
Before he died at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Underwood reportedly apologized to Bolin’s family for his heinous crimes.
He also said it was “needlessly cruel to my family” to execute him on his 45th birthday, six days before Christmas.
Underwood lured Bolin to his apartment before hitting her head with a cutting board and strangling her to death in his bathtub.
Subsequently, he confessed to law enforcement his gruesome act, indicating that it was driven by his cannibalistic and sexual desires. Although he did not carry out his plan to consume the young girl, he expressed his intent to do so.
He also said he tried to have sex with Bolin’s corpse, cops said at the time.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said justice was finally served for Bolin on Thursday.
“Today, justice for Jamie was finally achieved with the execution of the vile murderer who robbed her from her family and dear ones,” expressed Drummond in an official statement.
“I pray that Jamie’s family and all who continue to mourn her loss find a sense of peace after today’s action.”
A week before he was executed, Underwood said he regretted the ghastly murder in his final clemency hearing with the Pardon and Parole Board.
“I recognize that although I do not want to die…I deserve to for what I did,” the killer said over video on Friday, according to the Oklahoman.
“And if my death could…change what I did, I would gladly die.”
Underwood apologized to Bolin’s family and his own family at the hearing.
“I can’t believe I did those things,” he said.
“The person I was in the weeks leading up to that event is not who I am now.”
