A person on Alabama’s demise row desires his execution to go ahead this week, saying he believes in an “eye for a watch.”
“The explanation I dropped my appeals is I’m responsible of homicide,” James Osgood advised The Related Press in an phone interview from jail. “I’m a agency believer in, like I mentioned in courtroom, a watch for a watch, a tooth for a tooth. I took a life so mine was forfeited. I don’t imagine in sitting right here and losing all people’s time and all people’s cash.”
Osgood, 55, is scheduled to obtain a deadly injection Thursday at his south Alabama jail. He’s certainly one of solely a small variety of inmates on US demise rows to desert their authorized challenges. He additionally mentioned he doesn’t need opponents of the demise penalty protesting below his title.
Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. Prosecutors mentioned Osgood minimize her throat after he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted her. Osgood advised the AP that he desires to apologize — to Brown’s household, and to his personal — however he realizes the phrases are insufficient.
“I want to say to the sufferer’s household, I apologize, Osgood mentioned. “I’m not going to ask their forgiveness as a result of I do know they will’t give it.”
Osgood mentioned he doesn’t use Brown’s title when discussing the homicide as a result of he doesn’t really feel he has the precise to take action.
“I remorse taking her from them. I remorse slicing her life quick,” he mentioned. “I remorse that I took certainly one of God’s youngsters. And I remorse the ache and struggling that I brought about, not just for the sufferer and her household however to mine,” Osgood mentioned.
Brown’s family supported the demise sentence at trial. The AP was unable to succeed in member of Brown’s household for remark.
Osgood is certainly one of two prisoners — together with Moises Sandoval Mendoza in Texas — scheduled to die this week amid a slight uptick within the tempo of US executions.
“I don’t need protesting for me. There isn’t a want. I requested for this. If you wish to protest in opposition to executions, that’s tremendous, simply don’t use my title as your platform,” he mentioned.
Brown was discovered useless in her house on Oct. 23, 2010, after her employer turned involved when she didn’t present up for work. She had been stabbed and her throat was minimize, prosecutors mentioned.
After Osgood was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to demise, an appeals courtroom threw out the sentence, ruling {that a} choose gave improper directions to jurors. However as a brand new sentencing listening to started, Osgood requested for an additional demise sentence.
“I knew they had been going to come back again with demise. I didn’t need her household and my household to relive all that, simply for a similar factor. Why put them by means of that?”
Osgood has struggled to elucidate what he did. He mentioned he had been ingesting for 36 to 48 hours earlier than the crime, however he mentioned alcohol was to not blame for what he did. Requested what he would say to younger individuals, Osgood mentioned it could be don’t do something to somebody they wouldn’t need performed to themselves.
Osgood ended up spending greater than a decade on demise row. He determined early on that he would let his appeals go for 10 years, however now not. He additionally needed to discover being a bone marrow donor for his sister, however then she selected different remedies, and Osgood figured the jail wouldn’t permit him to donate anyway. He dropped his appeals final summer time, and requested for an execution date.
In a letter to his lawyer, he mentioned he now not feels as if he’s even current. “I’m drained. I wish to full my sentence,” Osgood wrote.
Osgood mentioned he thinks extra demise row inmates are eager about dropping their appeals, as a result of life with out parole is scarier than demise.
“The scary factor is having to remain right here. Look what the world is coming to,” Osgood mentioned.
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