Montgomery, ala. (AP) – A man in the corridor of the death of Alabama wants his execution to advance this week, saying that he believed in a “eye for an eye”.
“The reason I abandoned my calls is that I am guilty of murder,” James Osgood told the Associated Press during a prison telephone interview. “I firmly believe in, as I said in court, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I took a life, so mine was lost. I don't think I sit here and waste time from everyone and everyone. ”
Osgood, 55, is expected to receive a lethal injection Thursday at his South Alabama prison. He is one of the only detainees on American death lines to abandon their legal challenges. He also said that he did not want opponents of the death penalty to protest under his name.
Osgood was condemned to die for the murder in 2010 of Tracy Lynn Brown in the County of Chilton. The prosecutors said Oosgood had cut his throat to him after he and his girlfriend assaulted him sexually. Osgood told AP that he wanted to apologize – to Brown's family and his – but he realizes that the words are inadequate.
“I would like to say to the victim's family, I apologize, said Osgood.” I'm not going to ask for their forgiveness because I know they can't give it. “”
Osgood said he doesn’t use Brown's name when he discussed the murder because he doesn't think he had the right to do so.
“I regret having kidnapped them. I regret cutting his life,” he said. “I regret having taken one of the children of God. And I regret the pain and the suffering that I caused, not only for the victim and his family, but for mine,” said Osgood.
Relatives of Brown supported the death sentence at the trial. The AP could not reach the Brown family member to comment.
Osgood is one of the two prisoners – with months Sandoval Mendoza in Texas – who should die this week In the middle of a slight increase to the rhythm of American executions.
“I don't want to protest for myself. There is no need. I asked for that. If you want to protest against the executions, that's good, don't use my name as a platform,” he said.
Brown was found dead at home on October 23, 2010, after her employer was worried when she did not appear at work. She had been stabbed and her throat was cut, prosecutors said.
After Osgood was sentenced in 2014 and sentenced to death, a court of appeal SentenceJudging that a judge has given inappropriate instructions to the jurors. But at the beginning of a new hearing for determining the sentence, Osgood asked for another death sentence.
“I knew they were going to come back with death. I didn't want her family and family to give it all, just for the same thing. Why put them through it?
Osgood had trouble explaining what he did. He said he had been drinking for 36 to 48 hours before the crime, but he said that alcohol was not responsible for what he had done. Asked what he would say to young people, Osgood said that it would be nothing to do with someone that they would not want to do to themselves.
Osgood ended up spending more than a decade in the death corridor. He decided very early on that he would let his calls leave for 10 years, but more. He also wanted to explore the fact of being a bone marrow donor for his sister, but she then chose other treatments, and Osgood thought that the prison did not allow him to donate anyway. He abandoned his calls last summer and asked for an execution date.
“I know more that I am even in existence. I am tired. I want to finish my sentence,” Osgood wrote to his lawyer.
Osgood said he thought that more death prisoners plan to drop their calls, because life without parole is more frightening than death.
“What is frightening is to have to stay here. Look at what the world is coming from,” said Osgood.
