Serial Killer Oscar Ray Bolin Scheduled to Die Thursday

Barring a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-year-old Oscar Ray Bolin — who was found guilty 10 times by 10 juries for three different murders — will be executed at 6 p.m.in Florida State Prison.

“It will be in a sense, a closure”, Ms Matthews mother, Kathleen Reeves, told the Associated Press. Rosalie Bolin says her husband is innocent in Matthews’ killing, and she has become one of the state’s most outspoken death penalty opponents.

Reeves said she resents the spotlight the unconventional romance has received. “[The families] are not getting any peace by executing me tomorrow”.

Catholics across Florida are planning to gather today to pray for Bolin, his victims and their families and for an end to capital punishment.

Those convictions were eventually overturned – twice – but Bolin was eventually found guilty and condemned to die at his third retrial for Matthews’ death.

The boyfriend dashed out to retrace Matthews’ route, which would have taken her from the bank in Tampa to the Pasco County post office where her family kept a mailbox and where she often collected mail on her way to of from work. “It’s my release. My punishment’s over”.

When he was charged in 1990, Bolin was serving a 22- to 75-year prison sentence in OH for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old waitress near Toledo. “I’ll probably think about it more when we get to that point”. The half brother later recanted his story, then reversed his position again.

She added: “He dies for all of our girls”.

“We’re still waiting to hear something on our 11th Circuit Court appeal”, Brunvand said.

But Brunvand says a 2014 notice from the government included Bolin’s case as one where the evidence should be reviewed because of the analyst’s “scientifically unsupportable lab reports” and “false, misleading or inaccurate testimony”.

Though Reeves has hoped for an apology from Bolin in the execution chamber, she doubts that will happen.

The defendants’ parents and other supporters have held regular vigils outside the federal courthouse in Camden, where they were convicted after a three-month trial and six days of deliberations.

In the appeals, Bolin has argued, in part, that newly discovered evidence indicates another man confessed to the murder.

One hundred and thirty miles away, brightly colored artificial flowers adorn a grave site at Florida Hills Memorial Gardens in Springhill where Teri Lynn Matthews is buried.