Oklahoma Man Dies by Lethal Injection in Nation’s Final Execution of 2024

Oklahoma Man Dies by Lethal Injection in Nation’s Final Execution of 2024
Kevin Ray Underwood arrives in the courtroom for his formal sentencing in Purcell, Okla., on April 3, 2008. Sue Ogrocki/Pool/AP Photo
|Updated:
0:00

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. It was Oklahoma’s fourth execution of the year, and it took place on Underwood’s 45th birthday.