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| U.S. to execute man convicted of rape, murder - Vanguard News |
| 2025-04-25 |
| [VANGUARDNGR] A U.S. citizen is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on Thursday evening after dropping his appeals, saying he was guilty of raping and murdering a woman in 2010. The convict said he did not want to keep ''wasting everybody's time'' and money. James Osgood, 55, will be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at William Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. This will make him join the approximately one in 10 people on death rows across America who have asked for their own executions. A jury convicted Osgood of capital murder for the killing of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. Prosecutors said Osgood cut Brown's throat after he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted her. Osgood told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he wanted to apologise to Brown's family and that he dropped his appeals because, ''I am guilty of murder.'' In a letter to his lawyer explaining his decision to seek an execution date, he wrote that he was tired and no longer felt like he was ''even existing.'' ''I'm a firm believer in, like I said in court, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I took a life so mine was forfeited. ''I don't believe in sitting here and wasting everybody's time and everybody's money,'' Osgood told the AP. Brown was found dead in her home on Oct. 23, 2010. |
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