Posted on 07/21/2023 10:45:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Convicted killer Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It was 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. Cannon had been 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.
State prosecutors say Cannon repeatedly stabbed Clark in the throat and chest at her apartment in Tulsa, leaving her with multiple defensive wounds and severed jugular and carotid artery.
A federal appeals court late Wednesday denied Cannon’s last-minute appeal seeking a stay of execution in which Cannon claimed, among other things, that he was Native American and not subject to Oklahoma jurisdiction.
Asked if he had any last words, Cannon said: ‘Yes, I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. Therefore I am saved. Thank you.’
Clark’s eldest daughter, Yeh-Sehn White, and Clark’s sister, Shaya Duncan, witnessed Cannon’s execution and described it as peaceful.
‘In my opinion, he died in a very favorable way,’ White said. ‘Unfortunately, my mom did not have that opportunity.’
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.
According to officials, Jemaine Cannon’s last meal included:
Vernors ginger ale
Cherry pie
Chicken breast
Sliced brisket
Seasoned fries
Fried okra
Sweet and smoky beans.
He ate better than I do
Good riddance
Next!
You have a reasonable expectation of waking up tomorrow and buying your own Ginger ale and Cherry Pie, so there’s that.
Anyone been put under for surgery? They could end you in seconds and you would never know.
As Paul Harvey would have put it, Oklahoma killed a killer.
Last surgery I had, a quad by-pass in 2020, they put me under and I didn’t even know it happened until it was over in the intensive care room......................
I believe he forgot about the part about repenting of his sins. Just saying....
And the part about Jesus being the Son of God..............
Glad he accepted Jesus as his Savior, if that is true.
He can no longer hurt any more women.
He looked well fed overall.
Should have beat him to death with a claw hammer. Eye for an eye and a claw hammer for a claw hammer.
Opinion ping....................
Romans 10:9
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Yes, I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. Therefore I am saved. Thank you.’
The “Jesus is Lord”, part..................
My transplant surgery, they had me sitting on the side of the operating table to give me a spinal. Next thing I knew, it was 8+ hours later and it was all done…
My faith in anesthesiologists is second only to my faith in God. Those man and women are artists at what they do.
He had a more humane send-off than he gave his victim…
He’s dead Jim.
Vernors! Yay!
Roger that. My last was in Feb for cleaning my right side carotid. They moved me from the gurney to the operating table. Then I was in ICU. They could have taken me out at any second and I’d never have known. So what’s all the whining about ‘inhumane’ lethal injections?
I am so pro-death penalty! The only thing is that once sentenced, the sentence should be carried out in a week.
And all forcible rape, child rape, kidnapping, and murder should all be capital crimes as they used to be.
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