Death row inmate says he’s innocent

Bolin’s case garnered global attention in 1996 when he married a member of his defense team on national television from Death Row.

“It’s the last thing I can do for her”, Reeves, 78, said through tears.

The death warrant Scott signed in October is for the 1986 slaying of Teri Lynn Matthews.

Bolin, 53, was convicted in the deaths of Stephanie Collins, Natalie Blanche Holley, and Matthews.

The brothers were convicted with two others of plotting an attack at the military base in Fort Dix, near Trenton, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

“We don’t get a chance to explore that unless we get a new trial”, Brunvand said.

Ms Reeves said it did not matter that Bolin was not awaiting execution in all three cases “because he only dies once”.

“I can not imagine the pain they have suffered”, he said of the victims’ families. Bolin Jr., who ha…

In 2004, after three trials, the Florida Supreme Court upheld Bolin’s conviction and death sentence for murdering Matthews.

“Oscar came into my life and I thought, ‘This is bigger than anything I’ve ever done”.

“Obviously, I would not want him, or anyone, to suffer”.

“Yes I’m going to watch and I don’t know how I’m going to act”.

“It will be in a sense, a closure”, said Matthews’ mother, Kathleen Reeves.

“It’s barbaric in a civilized society”, she said. “The attention should be on the victim”.

“She was an exceptionally outgoing person”, Reeves said. The Chamberlain High School student was 17. Matthews vanished on December 4, 1986 after planning to have dinner in Tampa with her boyfriend. But when he called the house to ask for her, it became clear that wasn’t the case. Two months later, Matthews was abducted from a post office in Pasco County, just north of Tampa.

He called to say her vehicle was in the lot, still running, with its headlights on.

“I’m screaming and flailing all over the vehicle and all I could keep saying was, ‘No! No!” Her worst fears were confirmed when they showed her earrings they had removed from the victim – a pair Reeves bought her daughter so she would stop borrowing her own.

Three decades after Oscar Ray Bolin murdered three young women in the Tampa area, he is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

All of Bolin’s convictions were reversed at least twice due to legal errors, but new juries found him guilty again in all three cases.

Oscar Bolin, known as “Needles”, was a carnie and long-haul trucker.

He’s pressing that issue and Kasler’s confession in the federal courts.

His attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, says he’s filed another motion with the district court and an appeals court.

“It’s about time”, she said.