Coverage dated December 18, 2024

Oklahoma prepares to perform the nation's 25th and final execution of 2024

Headline from Local News 8

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man who killed a 10-year-old girl in 2006. Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

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  1. Local News 8

    Oklahoma prepares to perform the nation's 25th and final execution of 2024 (opens Local News 8)

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    Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man who killed a 10-year-old girl in 2006. Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

  2. Triblive

    Oklahoma man dies by lethal injection in the nation’s final execution of 2024 (opens Triblive)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year. Kevin Ray Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

  3. New York Post

    Oklahoma cannibal who killed 10-year-old girl in depraved plot is executed on his birthday (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.

  4. Newsweek

    Kevin Underwood dies by lethal injection in 2024's final execution (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl died Thursday in the nation's 25th execution of the year.

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