An Oklahoma death row inmate who was described as a "deeply evil monster" was denied clemency Friday. Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, is set to be executed Thursday − on his birthday − at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Cleveland County jurors convicted Underwood in 2008 and sentenced him to death for Bolin’s murder, which was planned, according to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s prosecutors. Underwood told police he acted on his cannibalistic fantasies.

Underwood is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Dec. 19, pending final approval from Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Confessed murderer Kevin Ray Underwood no longer has a clemency hearing on the calendar before his execution, after a stay was issued by 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, would be Oklahoma’s fourth execution of the year. His lawyers argue that recent resignations at the Pardon and Parole Board have put his constitutional right to a fair clemency hearing in jeopardy.

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The Pardon and Parole Board has recommended that clemency be denied for Oklahoma death row inmate Kevin Underwood.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for Kevin Underwood on Friday.All three members who voted denied clemency.Underwood is convictedof murder