Cannon was convicted in 1996 for stabbing a young mother to death. He is the second person to die by lethal injection in Oklahoma this year.
According to afrom the Associated Press , Cannon received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. CDT and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later. He is the second person to die by lethal injection in the state of Oklahoma this year.Cannon was convicted in 1996 for the killing of 20-year-old Sharonda Clark, who was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in February 1995.
Cannon claimed that he stabbed Clark out of self-defense and never meant to kill her. Police said that there were no noticeable wounds on Cannon's body when he was arrested, however. Cannon's last meal consisted of a Vernors ginger ale, chicken breast, sliced brisket, seasoned fries, fried okra, sweet and smoky beans, and cherry pie, according to officials who spoke withClark's eldest daughter, Yeh-Sehn White, and Clark's sister, Shaya Duncan, witnessed Cannon's death, reported AP. Both women described it as peaceful.
In this image, a prisoner has their hands clasped behind bars. The state of Oklahoma executed Jemaine Cannon, 51, on Thursday.In June, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied a clemency petition from Cannon's lawyers, who had argued that there was a"dispute as to who attacked whom first" in the struggle that led to Clark's death.
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