Randall Cannon and Loyd Winford Lafevers were executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Addie Mae Hawley
According to court documents Randall Cannon and Loyd Winford Lafevers would break into the home of eighty four year old Addie Mae Hawley who they would beat, kidnap, placed her into the trunk of a car and set the vehicle on fire
Randall Cannon and Loyd Winford Lafevers would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Loyd Winford Lafevers would be executed on January 30 2001
Randall Cannon would be executed on July 23 2002
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When Was Randall Cannon Executed
Randall Cannon was executed on July 23 2002
When Was Loyd Winford Lafevers Executed
Loyd Winford Lafevers was executed on January 30 2001
Randall Cannon Case
Randall Eugene Cannon was executed Tuesday for the 1985 slaying of an 84-year-old woman who was abducted from her Oklahoma City home, badly beaten and set on fire.
Cannon, 42, was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m., about three minutes after receiving a lethal combination of drugs. Asked if he had a final statement, Cannon said “No,” looked at the ceiling and took a deep breath.
Cannon’s body shook slightly, his toes jerked and his eyes closed as he became the state’s third execution this year and its 134th in history.
Cannon’s death sentence, for killing Addie Hawley on June 24, 1985, was carried out after his appeal for a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected.
“It certainly wasn’t justice,” said Ken Chlouber, Hawley’s nephew who fought back tears while speaking for the roughly half-dozen of her relatives who witnessed the execution.
“After 17 years, you can’t call that justice. Why couldn’t this vicious killer give Addie Hawley 17 more years to live?”
Hawley was abducted from her Oklahoma City home the night of June 24 and found hours later nude and incoherent in a vacant lot. She had been beaten and had severe burns over 60 percent to 65 percent of her body.
Authorities say Hawley, who died the next day, had moved 10 to 15 feet after being doused with gasoline and lit ablaze.
Chlouber, a state senator from Leadville, Colo., said many family members also attended the execution of Cannon’s co-defendant Loyd Lafevers, who was executed in January 2001.
Cannon, who was raised in Tulsa and had a history of drug use, admitted he watched co-defendant Loyd Lafevers commit the crimes but did nothing to stop them. However, the state argued and the jury found that Cannon played a more direct role in Hawley’s death.
Cannon also pleaded no contest to charges related to the June 25, 1985, beatings of an 81-year-old woman and her granddaughter. Prosecutors allege Cannon and Lafevers assaulted and robbed two other women around the same time.
“Of the 80 or 90 homicides I’ve worked in the last 21 years, when you consider only cases with single victims, this was the meanest killing I’ve ever been associated with,” said Lou Keel. an Oklahoma County prosecutor who prosecuted Cannon
Cannon appealed Monday to the Supreme Court, arguing that the justices’ June ruling requiring that juries not judges hand down death sentences indirectly affected his case.
But justices, who were asked to apply that ruling retroactively to older cases like Cannon’s, declined to hear the case. His appeals to lower courts had already been denied.
About a half-dozen relatives of Cannon’s other victims also came to McAlester to witness his execution, the first held since the state changed the time from 9 p.m. Only his attorney, Jack Fisher, came for Cannon.
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