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Appeal set in Purcell child killing

NORMAN — A state court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in an appeal for a Purcell man sentenced to die for a grisly 2006 child killing.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Modified: October 12, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Published: October 12, 2010

NORMAN — A state court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in an appeal for a Purcell man sentenced to die for a grisly 2006 child killing.

photo - Kevin Ray Underwood arrives in the courtroom for his formal sentencing in Purcell, Okla., Thursday, April 3, 2008. McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock formally sentenced Underwood to death by injection for killing a 10-year-old girl in a bizarre cannibalistic fantasy. At right is McClain County Sheriff Don Hewett. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)

Kevin Ray Underwood arrives in the courtroom for his formal sentencing in Purcell, Okla., Thursday, April 3, 2008. McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock formally sentenced Underwood to death by injection for killing a 10-year-old girl in a bizarre cannibalistic fantasy. At right is McClain County Sheriff Don Hewett. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)

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Oral arguments will be delivered Tuesday before the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in the case of 31-year-old Kevin Underwood. The hearing will be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Underwood was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2006 slaying of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. He admitted to investigators he lured the girl into his Purcell apartment, suffocated her, sexually assaulted her and then tried to cut off her head with a decorative dagger.

The girl's body was found in a plastic tub in Underwood's closet two days after she disappeared from the apartment she shared with her father upstairs from Underwood.