Joseph Cannon was a teen killer who was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Anne Walsh
According to court documents seventeen year old Cannon would go to the home of Anne Walsh who was the sister of Cannon’s lawyer. Joseph would fatally shoot the woman and attempted to sexually assault her
Cannon would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Joseph Cannon would be executed by lethal injection on April 22 1998
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Joseph Cannon Case
With five sons of his murder victim watching, officials needed two tries to execute a man who was 17 when he shot and killed a San Antonio woman.
The first attempt to execute Joseph Cannon was aborted Wednesday when a vein in his left arm collapsed and the needle popped out. He already had made a final statement expressing his regret for the 1977 slaying.After closing his eyes momentarily, he turned with a quizzical expression toward a window where witnesses stood. “It’s come undone,” he said, referring to the needle.
Prison officials pulled a curtain to block witnesses from seeing Cannon. Fifteen minutes later, witnesses returned to be greeted by a smiling Cannon.
Cannon, 38, had spent more than half of his life on death row for fatally shooting a 45-year-old mother of eight
https://www.deseret.com/1998/4/23/19376016/texas-officials-need-2-tries-to-execute-slayer-of-woman
