Cannon was the second person executed by Oklahoma in 2023, and the ninth since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 2021. Two more executions are scheduled this year as the state continues to empty out its death row.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, is set to die for the 1995 murder of Sharonda White Clark. Cannon will be the second person Oklahoma has put to death this year and the ninth since the state resumed executions in 2021.
Oklahoma has scheduled Glossip for death nine times since 2015. With just weeks remaining before his scheduled execution, he’s relying on an unlikely ally to save his life – Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
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Despite lower turnout, data shows rural and urban parts of the state shifted dramatically from the state’s 2018 vote on medical cannabis. A proposal to legalize recreational use failed in every county.
There have been at least 23 fatal police shootings in Oklahoma in 2023.
Gentner Drummond vows to be more ‘engaged’ than his predecessor. He’s already taken control of a series of investigations involving allegations of corruption and misuse of public funds.
“I’m glad our enemy is dead,” said a family member of A.J. and Patsy Cantrell, who Eizember killed in 2003. Eizember, in his final statement, said “my conscience is clear, completely.”
