The convicted killer was executed on the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, reportedly choosing sedatives through the course of, and was pronounced useless 10 minutes after the method started.

In line with the AP, whereas strapped all the way down to a gurney, he apologized to his circle of relatives and the household of the sufferer — 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin — for “all of the horrible issues I did.” He additionally allegedly stated that “the choice to execute me on my birthday and 6 days earlier than Christmas was a needlessly merciless factor to do to my household” — earlier than including, “however I am very sorry for what I did and I want I may take it again.”

Following his dying, the sufferer’s sister, Lori Pate, reportedly stated, “This does not convey our Jamie again nevertheless it does permit the area in our hearts to deal with her and permit the therapeutic course of to start.”

Per FOX Information, Underwood’s final meal was rooster fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, pinto beans, a sizzling roll, a cheeseburger and fries with ketchup and a soda.

His execution comes after a plea for clemency was rejected earlier this month; his legal professional argued his historical past of abuse and psychological well being points — together with autism, PTSD and schizotypal persona dysfunction — ought to spare him from dying.

He is the fourth individual to be executed within the state in 2024 … and the twenty fifth and last individual to be executed in america this 12 months.

Underwood was 26 and dealing at a neighborhood grocery retailer in 2006, when Bolin vanished after going to the library.

Per his personal confessional, Underwood lured the woman into his condominium, earlier than he beat her with a slicing board, smothered her to dying, sexually assaulted her physique and almost decapitated her.

He had allegedly deliberate to hold out his cannibalistic fantasies on the kid — with investigators discovering meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers he hoped to make use of in his condominium — earlier than failing to comply with via on them.

When FBI brokers searched his condominium, they discovered a plastic tub in his bed room closet. Underwood instructed authorities, “Go forward and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up.”

He was convicted of Bolin’s first-degree homicide in April 2008.

After video of his confession was proven throughout his clemency listening to, he stated, “I wish to apologize to the sufferer’s household, to my circle of relatives and to everybody in that room immediately that needed to hear the horrible particulars of what I did.”

“I can not consider I did these issues. The individual I used to be within the weeks main as much as that occasion is just not who I’m now,” he stated earlier this month.