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~ Jemaine Cannon, 20Jul23, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: June 15, 2023, 8:24 pm
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Board rejects clemency for Tulsa County killer Jemaine Cannon--
June 7th, 2023
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied to
recommend clemency on Wednesday for Tulsa County killer Jemaine
Cannon.
Cannon is set to die July 20 by lethal injection at the Oklahoma
State Penitentiary in McAlester.
He was sentenced to the death penalty for the 1995 stabbing
death of Sharonda White Clark, who left behind two young
children.
The vote was 3-2.
Yeh-Shen White Hicks, Clark’s daughter, asked the board to no
longer entertain the “foolery” and “pity that Mr. Cannon and his
family have put on for years.”
“Mercy was never given to my mother when her life was taken from
her,” she said.
At no point during the 28 years since her mother’s death has
Cannon expressed remorse, but instead he has “cried a river
about everything under the sun and moon,” Hicks said.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Cannon had a
history of abusing women and was a fugitive at the time of the
murder.
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Re: ~ Jemaine Cannon, 20Jul23, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: July 20, 2023, 4:34 pm
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Oklahoma executes man who stabbed Tulsa woman to death after
escaping from prison work center in 1995--
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to
death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a
prison work center.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10 a.m. and
was pronounced dead 13 minutes later at the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary in McAlester. It marked the second execution in
Oklahoma this year and the ninth since the state resumed lethal
injections in 2021.
Cannon was convicted of killing 20-year-old Sharonda Clark, a
mother of two with whom Cannon had been living at an apartment
in Tulsa after his escape weeks earlier from a prison work
center in southwest Oklahoma. At the time, Cannon was serving a
15-year sentence for the violent assault of another woman who
suffered permanent injuries after prosecutors say Cannon raped
her and beat her viciously with a claw hammer, iron and kitchen
toaster.
A federal appeals court late Wednesday denied Cannon's
last-minute appeal seeking a stay of execution in which Cannon
claims, among other things, that he is Native American and not
subject to Oklahoma jurisdiction.
Cannon's execution was scheduled on the same day that Alabama
planned to execute James Barber for the 2001 beating death of a
woman. It would be Alabama's first lethal injection after a
pause in executions following a string of problems with
inserting the IVs.
Cannon claimed at a clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon
and Parole Board last month that he killed Clark in
self-defense.
"I am deeply disheartened that the act of defending my life and
the acts that she initiated against me ever happened," Cannon
told the board via a video feed from the state penitentiary.
"The ending of human life was never desired, planned or
premeditated."
Cannon's attorney, Mark Henricksen, also told the panel that
Cannon's trial and appellate attorneys were ineffective for not
presenting evidence that supported his self-defense claim. His
trial attorneys presented no witnesses or exhibits and rested
after prosecutors presented their case, Henricksen said.
But prosecutors from the attorney general's office and Clark's
adult daughters have urged the state to execute Cannon.
Clark's eldest daughter, Yeh-Sehn White, told the Pardon and
Parole Board last month that Cannon had never in 28 years
expressed any remorse for his actions and urged the board to
reject clemency, which it did on a 3-2 vote.
"Mercy was never given my mother," she said. "Even still today
he points the blame at my mother for his actions."
Oklahoma currently uses a three-drug lethal injection protocol
beginning with the sedative midazolam, followed by the paralytic
vecuronium bromide and finally potassium chloride, which stops
the heart. The state had one of the nation's busiest death
chambers until problems in 2014 and 2015 led to a de facto
moratorium.
Richard Glossip was just hours from being executed in September
2015 when prison officials realized they received the wrong
lethal drug.
Last year, anti-death penalty advocate Lea Rodger married
Glossip inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
"For Rich, surviving three execution attempts, possibly facing a
fourth, the one thing he's really taken away from that is: Don't
take anything for granted ... really live in the moment," Rodger
said before they wed in a small ceremony inside the prison.
It was later learned that the same wrong drug had been used to
execute an inmate in January 2015.
The drug mix-ups followed a botched execution in April 2014 in
which inmate Clayton Lockett struggled on a gurney before dying
43 minutes into his lethal injection — and after the state's
prisons chief ordered executioners to stop.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Oklahoma has
43 inmates on death row, and 116 executions have been carried
out in the state since 1976.
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