20 July 2023 :
(July 20, 2023) - Jemaine Cannon, now 51, Black, was executed.
Cannon received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester
A Tulsa County jury in 1996 sentenced Cannon to death for the February 3, 1995 murder of Sharonda Clark, 20, 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. At the time, Cannon was serving a 15-year sentence for the violent assault of another woman who suffered permanent injuries.
On June 7 the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 denying clemency to Cannon. At the clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board he claimed that he killed Clark in self-defense.
Cannon becomes the 2nd inmate to be executed by Oklahoma this year, the 121st overall since the state resumed executions in 1990, the 14th person executed nationally in 2023, and the number 1,572 overall since the nation resumed executions in 1977.
