Montgomery, Ala. – A Alabama man is scheduled to be executed on Thursday After dropping their appealssaying that she is guilty of raping and killing a woman in 2010 and who does not want to continue “wasting everyone’s time” and money.
James Osgood, 55, will be executed by lethal injection at 6 PM CDT in the William Holman correctional center in Atmore, Alabama, joining approximately one in 10 people in deaths of death throughout the United States who have requested their own executions.
A jury condemned Osgood of Capital Murder for the murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. The prosecutors said Osgood cut Brown’s throat after he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted her.
Osgood told Associated Press that he wants to apologize to Brown’s family and dropped his appeals because “I am guilty of murder.” In a letter to his lawyer who explains his decision to find an execution date, he wrote that he is tired and that he no longer feels that he is “even existing.”
“I firmly believe in, as I said in court, an eye for one eye, a tooth for a tooth. I took my life, so mine was lost. I don’t believe in sitting here and wasting everyone’s time and everyone’s money,” Osgood told the AP.
Brown was found dead at home on October 23, 2010. The prosecutors said Osgood admitted to the police that he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted Brown, forcing her to perform sexual acts, after discussing how they had fantasies about kidnapping and torture someone. Then he cut his throat. His girlfriend, who was Brown’s cousin, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
“I can’t imagine anyone who does that to someone, even his worst enemy. I don’t know what kind of mind that kind of thought has,” said Jackie Wileman, Madrastra de Brown, to the judge of the Osgood Judgment Hearing in 2014.
When delivering the death sentence, the judge pointed out that Osgood had a difficult childhood that included sexual abuse, abandonment and an attempt of suicide. But the judge also said that it was Osgood who cut Brown’s neck and stabbed her as she begged the couple not to hurt her.
Osgood said last week that he regrets all the “pain and suffering” that Brown’s family has caused and his.
“I would like to tell the victim’s family, I apologize,” said Osgood. “I’m not going to apologize because I know they can’t give it.” Only God can give forgiveness, he said.
Osgood’s initial death sentence was expelled by an appeal court Declaration that jury members received inappropriate instructions. In his resentment in 2018, Osgood asked to be executed, saying that he did not want families to support another audience.
The death penalty information center reported last year that 165 of the people executed since a moratorium on the death penalty ended in 1977, a total that has since grown up to more than 1650 people, asked to be killed. The center also said that the overwhelming majority of these volunteers had a history of mental illness, substance abuse or suicidal ideation.
The governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, made a rare movement this year to GRANT CLEMENCE To another inmate of the death corridor, traveling the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers To life in prison. The governor said there were enough questions about his guilt that he could not advance with his execution. It was the only time that Ivey has granted clemency, and the first time that any governor of Alabama commuted a death sentence since 1999.
