Florida to Execute Serial Killer Oscar Ray Bolin Thursday Night

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. That came after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal.

Bolin, 53, was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m., 11 minutes after the execution began.

For the families of Stephanie Collins, Natalie Holley and Teri Lynn Matthews, it all started in 1986 – the year the three women were murdered. After attending trials for more than 30 years, Witmer said that Bolin’s execution brought her relief.

Bolin ate half of a medium-rare rib-eye steak, half of a baked potato with sour cream, a few bites if a salad with thousand island dressing, garlic bread, some lemon meringue pie and half a bottle of Coke, Lewis said. According to court documents, Michelle Steen, the spouse of Bolin’s cousin, further testified that in 1987, while visiting her home, Bolin said he had murdered a girl in Florida and put a hose down her throat, and that Phillip had watched him do it. Fighting his third conviction for the murder, Bolin filed a string of appeals with the aid of Rosalie Martinez, a private investigator who professed her love for Bolin after she met him in prison working on his defense. The Department of Corrections says he’s been calm and in good spirits.

Bolin’s death sentence in the Matthews case was upheld in 2004 after three trials.

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 sentenced to death for the killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins, and a jury gave him the death penalty for killing 25-year-old Natalie Holley, but that verdict was thrown out. Another jury eventually convicted him of second-degree murder in that case.

Bolin was found guilty 10 times by 10 juries for three different murders. Reeves told The Associated Press it doesn’t matter that Bolin was not executed for all three cases “because he only dies once”.

“As to the possibility of ever forgiving Oscar Ray Bolin for (murdering my daughter) it will never happen”, she said.

“I can not imagine the pain they have suffered”, he said of the victims’ families. ‘My conscience is clear. ‘[The families] are not getting any peace by executing me tomorrow’.

On Wednesday, he told Fox 13 TV he was innocent and claimed evidence used against him was planted.

“I didn’t do it, you’re not going to believe me, fine”, he said, adding that “After 28 years of this, being in this box for 28 years, it’s a release”. “Now they’re just releasing me”. Martinez divorced her husband, and, on a live TV, married Bolin in 1996, ten years after the slayings.