Oklahoma Executes a Man for the 1995 Butcher Knife Slaying of a Tulsa Woman

Jemaine Cannon on Feb. 11, 2023. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP

McALESTER, Okla.—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 10:01 a.m. 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.