An Oklahoma death row inmate was executed Thursday, his 45th birthday, for the 2006 brutal murder of an innocent 10-year-old girl.
Kevin Ray Underwood received the lethal injection for the murder of Jamie Rose Bolin in April 2006. He was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. local time.
“I recognize that although I do not want to die…I deserve to for what I did,” Underwood said through tears at his clemency hearing Friday.
“And if my death could…change what I did, I would gladly die.”
Underwood’s final meal consisted of chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, pinto beans, a hot roll, a cheeseburger, and fries with ketchup.
He has confessed to brutally killing Jamie when she came over to play with his pet and while she was watching “SpongeBob SquarePants” at his home.
He detailed how he beat the girl with a wooden cutting board, suffocated and raped her before attempting to decapitate her body with a decorative dagger.
Underwood, then 26, acted on a recent desire “to abduct a person, molest them, eat their flesh, and dispose of their remains,” according to his statements to the FBI.
When officers showed up at his apartment, two days after Jamie’s disappearance, the mentally-troubled killer readily admitted to killing the girl and keeping her remains in a storage container in his bedroom.
“Go ahead and arrest me…She’s in there. I hit her and chopped her up. I’m going to burn in hell,” he told cops.
