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Oklahoma prepares to perform the nation's 25th and final execution of 2024

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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 die by lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, was sentenced to die for killing Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy.

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