Bolin has been convicted, re-tried on appeals, and convicted again-10 times in all-for the 1986 murders of three young women.
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Oscar Ray Bolin, convicted of murdering three Tampa-area women in 1986, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison. Bolin was originally scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m., however, the execution was delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bolin’s final appeal.
According the Associated Press, reported via MSN, Gov. Rick Scott’s office confirmed that Bolin was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:16 p.m.at the Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida.
Collins disappeared from a shopping center parking lot in Tampa the same year, and two months later, Matthews was abducted north of Tampa.
“They’re executing someone that absolutely did not commit that murder”, Bolin said, regarding the death of Teri Lynn Matthews, the case he’ll be executed for Thursday evening.
Earlier in the day, Bolin ate a final meal that included steak, baked potato, salad and lemon meringue pie, Corrections Department spokesman McKinley Lewis said.
On Thursday, Bolin awoke at 6 a.m. and visited with his wife Rosalie for three hours. “Phillip Bolin said he watched his brother try to drown her with a garden hose and beat her with a wood club”.
Oscar Ray Bolin, a sadistic serial killer who brutalized his victims and then tortured their survivors with years of legal manipulations, finally got his just due. Another jury eventually convicted him of second-degree murder in that case.
He said the same the thing about Collins and Holley’s murders, but a total of 10 different juries said he did kill the women.
The death row inmate also received a life sentence in the January 1986 slaying of Natalie Blanch Holley, 25, in Hillsborough County.
“My conscience is clear”, Bolin added. Bolin’s case appears on a list created by the inspector general as one that should be reviewed after an Federal Bureau of Investigation examiner had been found to have created unsupportable lab facts.
Bolin outlived Natalie Holley’s mother, who died in 2012 still waiting for justice.
“It will be in a sense, a closure, ‘ Ms Matthews” mother, Kathleen Reeves, said. Florida’s just killing me.
“I didn’t know ’em, never seen ’em, never met ’em”, he said. “I’m at peace with myself”. He argued that all the evidence used to convict him was both tampered with and planted. It’s my release. My punishment’s over. Martinez divorced him and married Bolin, on live TV, in 1996 – 10 years after the slayings. After 28 years of this, being in this box for 28 years, it’s a release.
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The three killings went unsolved until an anonymous call to a tip line in 1990. “I think that’s something that most civilized nations have recognized – it doesn’t belong in our society”.
