Oklahoma is gearing up for the nation's 25th and final execution of the year, as Kevin Ray Underwood is set to be executed on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, was convicted of the heinous murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006, as part of a disturbing cannibalistic fantasy.
Underwood confessed to luring Jamie into his apartment, where he brutally beat her with a cutting board, suffocated her, and sexually assaulted her. He admitted to contemplating decapitating the young girl in his bathtub before ultimately abandoning his plans to consume her.
