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Tampa Area Killer Set To Die Thursday

Doug Smith
/
Florida Department of Corrections
Oscar Bolin is scheduled to be put to death at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

Update 1/8/2016: Oscar Bolin was declared dead at 10:16 p.m. His execution was delayed four hours while the U.S. Supreme Court considered his appeal to stay the execution. They ultimately denied the appeal. Bolin made no final statement before he was executed.

The 23rd person is scheduled to be put to death during  Gov. Rick Scott’s administration Thursday evening.

Scott has overseen the most executions of any  governor in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Oscar Bolin, known as “Needles,” was a carnie and long-haul trucker. And in 1986, he became a murderer too, according to 10 different juries.

He was ultimately convicted of the murder of three young women in the Tampa area. The women were stabbed and bludgeoned to death just months apart.

On Thursday, in a small white room with the family members of all three victims looking on, Bolin will be injected with a series of drugs intended to kill him.

Aside from his protracted legal battle, the 53-year-old made headlines when he married a legal assistant who worked in the public defender's office in a televised ceremony – him on the phone, her at home standing in front of his picture.

Bolin’s lawyers are continuing to fight the sentence. But unless the U.S. Supreme Court or an appeals court steps in, the process to end his life will begin at 6 p.m.  at the Florida State Prison in Raiford Florida.

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