Oklahoma executes a man for the 1995 butcher knife slaying of a Tulsa woman

(AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995. 

Fifty-one-year-old Jemaine Cannon received a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. 

He was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. 

Cannon was convicted and sentenced to die for killing 20-year-old Sharonda Clark, a mother of two young daughters. 

Cannon had been living with Clark at an apartment in Tulsa after his escape from a prison work center in southwest Oklahoma. 

Cannon had been serving a 15-year sentence for the violent assault of another woman. 

Cannon claimed at a clemency hearing last month that he killed Clark in self-defense.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond made the following statement today after the execution of Jemaine Cannon. The inmate was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of Sharonda Clark.

“Justice was finally served this morning for Sharonda Clark with the execution of her murderer. My hope is that today’s action can bring some measure of peace for Sharonda’s two daughters, as well as her other family members and friends who loved her.”