An Oklahoma panel on Friday rejected the plea of Kevin Ray Underwood who was convicted of torturing and killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a cannibalistic fantasy.

Oklahoma death row inmate, Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, is set to be executed Thursday, 18 years after he killed 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin.

Kevin Ray Underwood arrives in the courtroom for his formal sentencing in Purcell, Okla., on April 3, 2008. Credit: AP/Sue Ogrocki ...

An execution date has been set for death row inmate Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, who was convicted of first-degree murder.He was ...

Kevin Ray Underwood, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. "I would like to apologize again for all the terrible things I did ...

Kevin Ray Underwood was sentenced to die for the killing of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, ...

Oklahoma executed Kevin Ray Underwood on Thursday for killing a 10-year-old girl in April 2006, making him the fourth inmate executed in the state this year and the 25th in the nation.

Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, his 45th birthday. Latest U.S.

Kevin Ray Underwood is escorted from a Cleveland County court room Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008, during a break in his hearing at the Cleveland County Courthouse. Transcript photo by Jerry Laizure.

Jamie Rose Bolin was killed by Kevin Ray Underwood after he sexually assaulted her in his Purcell, Okla., home on April 12, 2006, per the Associated Press, The Norman Transcript and The Oklahoman.

MCALESTER, Okla. — Kevin Ray Underwood was executed on Dec. 19 at 10:14 a.m. Underwood killed Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 in Purcell. He raped and tortured her before her death and planned a ...