Inmate executed in Oklahoma, before another in Alabama
On Thursday, the United States was due to execute two death row inmates by lethal injection in two separate states.
PostedJuly 20, 2023, 8:00 PM
Two prisoners sentenced to death were to be executed by lethal injection.
AFP
A 51-year-old inmate on death row for the murder of a woman nearly 30 years ago was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, authorities said. Jemaine Cannon, found guilty of killing 20-year-old mother-of-two Sharonda Clark in 1995, was executed in McAlester Penitentiary in the southern US state.
“Justice was finally served this morning,” Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement, saying he hoped it “could bring some peace to Sharonda’s two daughters.”
Executions that don’t work
A second inmate, James Barber, 54, is to be executed in l’Alabama in what would be the first lethal injection in that other southern US state since last year and a series of executions marred by dysfunction.
James Barber, 54, a handyman by profession, was convicted in 2003 of beating a septuagenarian to death with a hammer during a burglary. He is due to receive a lethal injection at Atmore prison in Alabama between 5:01 a.m. GMT Thursday and 11 a.m. GMT (between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Switzerland) on Friday.
Moratorium
Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey declared a moratorium on executions last year after several problems with lethal injections. In one case, the July 2022 execution of Joe James Jr., it took more than three hours to set up an IV drip.
Two other execution attempts had to be stopped because of problems in the placement of these infusions. Jemaine Cannon’s execution marks the 14th prisoner killing in the United States in 2023, all carried out by lethal injection.
(AFP)
2023-07-20 18:00:33
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