MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama guy is scheduled to be completed Thursday after losing his appeals, pronouncing he is accountable of raping and murdering a girl in 2010 and he does not need to stay “losing everyone’s time” and cash.
James Osgood, 55, will probably be completed by way of deadly injection at 6 p.m. CDT at William Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, becoming a member of the roughly one in 10 other folks on demise rows throughout The us who’ve requested for their very own executions.
A jury convicted Osgood of capital homicide for the killing of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. Prosecutors stated Osgood lower Brown’s throat after he and his female friend sexually assaulted her.
Osgood instructed The Related Press that he needs to say sorry to Brown’s circle of relatives and that he dropped his appeals as a result of, “I’m accountable of homicide.” In a letter to his attorney explaining his resolution to hunt an execution date, he wrote that he is drained and not looks like he is “even current.”
“I’m a company believer in, like I stated in courtroom, a watch for a watch, a teeth for a teeth. I took a existence so mine used to be forfeited. I don’t imagine in sitting right here and losing everyone’s time and everyone’s cash,” Osgood instructed the AP.
Brown used to be discovered useless in her house on Oct. 23, 2010. Prosecutors stated Osgood admitted to police that he and his female friend sexually assaulted Brown, forcing her to accomplish intercourse acts, after discussing how they’d fantasies about kidnapping and torturing anyone. Then he lower her throat. His female friend, who used to be Brown’s cousin, used to be sentenced to existence in jail.
“I will be able to’t consider any person doing that to anyone, even their worst enemy. I don’t know what sort of thoughts has that roughly pondering,” Jackie Wileman, Brown’s stepmother, instructed the pass judgement on at Osgood’s 2014 sentencing listening to.
In handing down the demise sentence, the pass judgement on famous that Osgood had a troublesome early life that incorporated sexual abuse, abandonment and a suicide strive. However the pass judgement on additionally stated that it used to be Osgood who lower Brown’s neck and stabbed her as she begged the couple to not harm her.
Osgood stated closing week that he regrets the entire “ache and struggling” he has led to Brown’s circle of relatives, and his personal.
“I want to say to the sufferer’s circle of relatives, I say sorry,” Osgood stated. “I’m now not going to invite their forgiveness as a result of I do know they may be able to’t give it.” Handiest God can grant forgiveness, he stated.
Osgood’s preliminary demise sentence used to be thrown out by way of an appeals courtroom ruling that jurors got mistaken directions. At his resentencing in 2018, Osgood requested to be completed, pronouncing he did not need the households to bear every other listening to.
The Dying Penalty Knowledge Middle reported closing yr that 165 of the people completed since a moratorium at the demise penalty resulted in 1977 — a complete that has since grown to greater than 1650 other folks — requested to be put to demise. The middle additionally stated that the vast majority of those volunteers had histories of fellowstal sickness, substance abuse or suicidal ideation.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey made a unprecedented transfer this yr to grant clemency to every other demise row inmate, commuting the demise sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to existence in jail. The governor stated there have been sufficient questions on his guilt that she may now not transfer ahead together with his execution. It used to be the one time Ivey has granted clemency, and the primary time any Alabama governor commuted a demise sentence since 1999.
