Oscar Ray Bolin’s Execution On Hold

Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. EST at the Florida State Prison in Starke, would be the first inmate executed in the state this year.

Bolin’s attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, said Thursday afternoon that he has filed an appeal for a stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision came nearly four hours after Bolin was initially scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke.

He was executed Thursday for the death of Teri Lynn Matthews, a woman found wrapped in a sheet and with multiple head injuries, according to a summary of the case from the Florida Supreme Court.

Two months later, Ms Matthews was abducted from a post office in Pasco County, just north of Tampa. When the authorities first confronted Bolin about the killings, he was already serving a 22- to 75-year prison sentence in an OH prison for a 1987 rape of a 20-year-old woman outside of Toledo.

Reeves isn’t the only grieving family member left to pick up the pieces after Bolin went on a 1986 killing spree in Tampa Bay. Bolin was also visited by his wife, Rosalie, and Dale Recinella, his spiritual adviser.

When asked if he had any last words, Bolin simply said, “No sir”.

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.

Bolin was also connected by officials to a murder in Texas, where he kidnapped and raped a 30-year-old woman before strangling her.

Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Holley case.

In all, he was convicted 10 times by 10 juries, an outrageous abuse of the system.

“He dies for all of our girls”. For years, she helped Bolin construct his argument for innocence, largely based on the notion that forensic evidence had been handled by Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Michael Malone, a hair-and-fiber analyst accused of giving fraudulent testimony in other criminal trials.

His case drew national attention when he was televised marrying by phone a paralegal who had been working in the public defender’s office.

Matthews’ mother, Kathleen Reeves, said: “It’s been so long”.

Reeves added that it didn’t matter that Bolin was not executed for all three of the women “because he only dies once”.

“I can not imagine the pain they have suffered”, he said of the victims’ families. Martinez divorced him and married Bolin, on live TV, in 1996 – 10 years after the slayings.

On Wednesday, Bolin told the Fox 13 television station that he’s innocent.

He said: “My conscience is clear”. “I’m at peace with myself”. I think that would be the ideal punishment, and I think that would be terrifying to him.