Killer’s execution awaiting Supreme Court ruling

Oscar Bolin Jr., the first person to be executed in the United States in 2016, was sentenced to death in the 1986 killings of two of the three women.

Florida executed a man Thursday night been convicted of killing three women, carrying out the lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied requests to get involved.

The justices rejected Bolin’s appeal and request for a stay without comment.

Inside the bouquet was a copy of the death warrant Gov. Rick Scott signed for Bolin, NBC reported. The 26-year-old woman was abducted from the Land O’ Lakes Post Office on USA 41.

He once again received the death penalty in the Matthews’ and Collins’ killings, but a new jury in the Holley slaying found Bolin guilty of second-degree murder, converting his previous death sentence to a sentence of life in prison.

After his conviction, the verdicts in three trials were reversed at least twice because of legal errors, but he was then found guilty again in all three cases.

Bolin was found guilty 10 times by 10 juries for three different murders.

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.

Matthews’ mother, Kathleen Reeves, plans to witness the execution on Thursday. “It’s about time“, she said.

The mothers of the three victims attended numerous trials together.

The victims’ loved ones say Bolin’s death will finally give them some closure.

Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., center, watches as the jurors walk into the courtroom Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Tampa.

The cases went unsolved until someone called an anonymous tip line in 1990, when Bolin was already serving a 22- to 75-year prison sentence in OH for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old waitress outside Toledo in 1987.

Bolin’s case drew increased attention because while he was imprisoned, he met and married a woman who was working in the public defender’s office. “My conscience is clear”. It’s my release. My punishment’s over. In Matthews’ case, Bolin’s half-brother testified Bolin woke him up and showed him a body wrapped in a sheet that made a whimpering nose. Martinez divorced her husband, and, on a live TV, married Bolin in 1996, ten years after the slayings.

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Florida is one of the country’s most active death penalty states.