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Rick Scott's office said Bolin was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:16 pm at Florida State Prison in Starke. The execution procedure took about 12 minutes, during which Bolin's chest heaved for several minutes as he took a number of deep breaths.Bolin told the TV station that evidence used to convict him was both tampered with and planted. My punishment's over..Bolin was also sentenced to death for -killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins.Texas prosecutors declined to seek an indictment.Authorities later discovered it was the new husband of Bolin's ex-wife who called in the tip; the ex-wife said Bolin had told her about the killings in 1986. During the trial, Bolin's younger half brother said he watched Bolin beat Matthews and try to drown her with a garden hose.Matthews' mother, Kathleen Reeves, and Collins' family were present for the execution. Rosalie Martinez had been a paralegal at the Hillsborough Public Defender's office who was married to a prominent Tampa attorney. Reeves told The Associated Press it doesn't matter that Bolin was not executed for all three cases "because he only dies once.
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 of Bolin's convictions were reversed at least twice due to legal errors, but new juries found him guilty again in all three cases. Martinez divorced him and married Bolin, on live TV, in 1996 - 10 years after the slayings.Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Holley case." "He dies for all of our girls. "I didn't know 'em, never seen 'em, never met 'em," he said of the three victims.Bolin was also officially linked to just one other murder: the strangulation of China Nitrile Rubber Hoses Deborah Diane Stowe, 30, in 1987 in Greenville, Texas. All three women were stabbed. They can't hurt me no more.Bolin was also sentenced to death for the killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins."My conscience is clear," he told the TV station. "I'm at peace with myself.Rosalie Bolin maintained that her husband was innocent in Matthews' killing, and she has become one of the state's most outspoken death penalty opponents since her marriage. It's my release. The 26-year-old Matthews was abducted from a post office in Pasco County, just north of Tampa.
The half brother later recanted his story, then reversed his position again. He once again received the death penalty in the Matthews and Collins killings, but a new jury in the Holley slaying found Bolin guilty of second-degree murder, converting his previous death sentence to a sentence of life in prison. My punishment's over. Starke: Oscar Ray Bolin, a former carnival worker who was convicted of killing 3 Tampa Bay-area women then married a member of his defence team while on death row, was executed Thursday in Florida.The death warrant Scott signed in October is for the 1986 slaying of Teri Lynn Matthews. The scheduled 6 pm execution time was delayed until the US Supreme Court rejected without comment Bolin's final appeal."While on trial, Bolin and a woman on his defense team fell in love.Gov.On Wednesday, Bolin told the Fox 13 television station that he's innocent. His cousin told authorities that he and Bolin abducted Stowe outside a convenience store and raped her in a truck before Bolin killed her.The three Tampa-area killings went unsolved until someone called an anonymous tip line in 1990, when Bolin was already serving a 22- to 75-year prison sentence in Ohio for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old waitress outside Toledo in 1987."Bolin said "no sir" when asked if he wanted to make a final statement Thursday night. After 28 years of this, being in this box for 28 years, it's a release