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

In response to the AP, whereas strapped right 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 might take it again.”

Following his demise, the sufferer’s sister, Lori Pate, reportedly stated, “This does not carry our Jamie again but it surely does enable the area in our hearts to concentrate on her and permit the therapeutic course of to start.”

Per FOX Information, Underwood’s final meal was hen 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 lawyer argued his historical past of abuse and psychological well being points — together with autism, PTSD and schizotypal character dysfunction — ought to spare him from demise.

He is the fourth particular person to be executed within the state in 2024 … and the twenty fifth and ultimate particular person to be executed in the US this yr.

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

Per his personal confessional, Underwood lured the lady into his residence, earlier than he beat her with a chopping board, smothered her to demise, 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 residence — earlier than failing to observe via on them.

When FBI brokers searched his residence, they discovered a plastic tub in his bed room closet. Underwood advised 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 want 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 particular person I used to be within the weeks main as much as that occasion isn’t who I’m now,” he stated earlier this month.