Man Who 'Chopped Up' & Planned To Eat Little Girl Complained His Execution Being Scheduled On His Birthday Was 'Needlessly Cruel'

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A murderer is dead. And one of his last acts was to piss off a lot of people.

Kevin Underwood was put to death in Oklahoma on Thursday after over a decade on death row. He had been convicted in 2008 for the absolutely horrific 2006 murder of a little girl.

His neighbor, 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, had disappeared during a trip to the library in the city of Purcell, about 40 miles south of Oklahoma City. The FBI‘s investigation eventually led to Underwood. When they searched his place, they found a plastic bin with her remains. He reportedly told them right away:

“Go ahead and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up.”

He confessed to luring the child to his apartment, beating her with a wooden cutting board, and suffocating her to death. Afterward he sexually assaulted her dead body and cut on her, nearly decapitating her. According to CBS News, he had cannibal fantasies and had planned to cook and eat the child. He had even purchased meat tenderizer and BBQ skewers with the intention of going through with it… but he never did.

Earlier this week he tried to get clemency, testifying in a video feed from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary:

“I would like to apologize to the victim’s family, to my own family and to everyone in that room today that had to hear the horrible details of what I did.”

The board members voted unanimously not to grant clemency in this case.

On Thursday morning he was executed by way of lethal injection. Per CBS News, in his last words he apologized once more “for all the terrible things I did.” However, he also got in one last annoyed jab:

“The decision to execute me on my birthday and six days before Christmas was a needlessly cruel thing to do to my family, but I’m very sorry for what I did and I wish I could take it back.”

Sorry, he’s going to talk about something being “needlessly cruel”? The man who chopped up a little girl??

Yes, it’s true. December 19 was Underwood’s 45th birthday. But frankly as awful as what he did was, the idea that the state would take that into consideration to make sure things weren’t especially inconvenient for the child murderer? Yeah, sorry. We can’t see anyone taking pains to reschedule for him.

What do YOU think, Perezcious readers??

[Image via Oklahoma Department Of Corrections/Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office.]