Alabama to execute the detainee who gave up calls and asked for death

Montgomery, Ala. – Alabama has set out a date of execution in April for a man who gave up calls and asked to be sentenced to death for the rape of 2010 and killing a woman.

James Osgood, 55, will be executed by lethal injection on April 24, announced governor Alabama Kay Iory. Osgood was convicted of Tracy Lynn Brown’s 2010 in 2010 in Chilton County. Prosecutors said that Osgood cut his neck after he and his girlfriend assaulted him sexually.

Osgood during the summer and gave up calls and asked the state to establish a date of execution for him.

“I know more time to feel as if I had existed. I’m tired. I want to complete my sentence, “Osgood wrote in a letter to his lawyer last July. The letter was included in the judicial records about his request to renounce his appeal. He also thanked his lawyer for her work in his case.

Osgood was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to death, but a court of appeal threw the sentence, deciding that a judge gave inappropriate instructions to the jurors. But at his resentment in 2018, Osgood asked for a death sentence, telling the judge that he believed in an “eye for an eye”.

“A few years ago I really screwed. I am guilty and I deserve death. That’s what I want, ”Osgood told the judge, WSFA informed.

Osgood renewed the calls after his conviction until they abandoned them this summer.

Brown was found dead in her house on October 23, 2010, after her employer became worried when she did not show up at work. She was stabbed and cut the neck, the prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said that Osgood told the police that he and his girlfriend had sexually assaulted and attacked Brown after discussing how they had fantasies about abducting and torturing someone.

In the 2018 conviction order, handing over the death penalty, a judge mentioned that Osgood had a difficult childhood that included sexual abuse, abandonment and a suicide attempt. The development of his brain was potentially prevented because of the malnutrition he suffered as a baby, the judge found.

But the judge also said that Osgood cut Brown’s neck and stabbed it during the attack in which Brown asked him not to hurt her.

Osgood’s friend, the other person accused of murder, was guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

The execution authorization by Ivey comes two weeks after the Republican granted a clemency to another prisoner, making the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison. The governor said that there are enough questions about his guilt, that he could not go further with his execution.

It was the only time Ivey granted clemency. The last time a governor from Alabama has committed a death sentence was in 1999.

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