01-08-2016, 11:46 AM
FLORIDA
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^ Oscar Ray Bolin and wif Rosalie Bolin
Bolin, a former carnival worker and truck driver, was convicted of killing three Tampa Bay-area women in the mid 80s.
He then married Rosalie Martinez, a mother of four and clerical member of his defense team. She was married to a prominent attorney when she met Bolin. Her marriage to Bolin on death row generated a lot of publicity at the time.
Oscar Ray Bolin was pronounced dead by lethal injection last night at 10:16 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. The scheduled 6 p.m. execution time was delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bolin's final appeal without comment.
The death warrant Scott signed in October was for the 1986 killing of Teri Lynn Matthews and 17-year-old Stephanie Collins. A jury also gave him the death penalty for killing 25-year-old Natalie Holley, but that verdict was thrown out because of legal errors. All three women were stabbed.
Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Holley case.
Matthews' mother, Kathleen Reeves, and Collins' family were present for the execution. Reeves told The Associated Press it doesn't matter that Bolin was not executed for all three cases "because he only dies once." Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscar-ray-bo...n-florida/
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Man, there were a lot of trial errors, verdict reversals, and witness recantations in this case.
Interesting read: http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bolin-oscar.htm
^ Oscar Ray Bolin and wif Rosalie Bolin
Bolin, a former carnival worker and truck driver, was convicted of killing three Tampa Bay-area women in the mid 80s.
He then married Rosalie Martinez, a mother of four and clerical member of his defense team. She was married to a prominent attorney when she met Bolin. Her marriage to Bolin on death row generated a lot of publicity at the time.
Oscar Ray Bolin was pronounced dead by lethal injection last night at 10:16 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. The scheduled 6 p.m. execution time was delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bolin's final appeal without comment.
The death warrant Scott signed in October was for the 1986 killing of Teri Lynn Matthews and 17-year-old Stephanie Collins. A jury also gave him the death penalty for killing 25-year-old Natalie Holley, but that verdict was thrown out because of legal errors. All three women were stabbed.
Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Holley case.
Matthews' mother, Kathleen Reeves, and Collins' family were present for the execution. Reeves told The Associated Press it doesn't matter that Bolin was not executed for all three cases "because he only dies once." Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscar-ray-bo...n-florida/
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Man, there were a lot of trial errors, verdict reversals, and witness recantations in this case.
Interesting read: http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bolin-oscar.htm