McALESTER — The 25th and final execution of 2024 in the United States was carried out Thursday when an admitted child killer was put to death on his birthday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

An execution date has been set for death row inmate Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, who was convicted of first-degree murder. He was sentenced for killing 10-year-old Jamie Bolin in 2006 in Purcell.

On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024. Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...

Kevin Ray Underwood, who turned 45 on Thursday, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said. The execution process began at 10:04 am ...

Kevin Ray Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution of the year, and it took place on Underwood’s 45th ...

Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, was sentenced ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-0 Friday to deny mercy to child killer Kevin Ray Underwood, who is set to die Dec. 19. Pictured from left to right are Robert Reavis II, Acting ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man who killed a 10-year-old girl in what would be the nation's 25th and final execution of the year. Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to ...

Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, was sentenced ...