Larry Jackson was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Wendy Cade
According to court documents Larry Jackson was serving a thirty year prison sentence for the murder of his first wife Freda Laverne Washington. When he was on a prison work crew outside of the prison Jackson would take off and meet up with Wendy Cade. An argument would take place at a motel that ended with Jackson killing Cade with a box knife
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Larry Jackson would be executed by lethal injection on April 17 2003
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Larry Jackson was executed on April 17 2003
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A man was executed for killing his girlfriend after he walked away from a prison work detail while serving a sentence for killing another woman, his common-law wife. Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40, was given a lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Jackson apologized to Wendy Cade’s mother and family and to his own family members who watched him die. “I want to say I’m sorry, that’s all I can say. I just want to apologize,” Jackson said. “I guess I’m going to go now. Bye, y’all.” Cade’s sister, Anita Taylor, said she was not satisfied with Jackson’s apology, but said she’s not sure what she wanted Jackson to say. “That’s between him and God,” she said. Still, she said, “This has been a closure for our family so we can get on with our lives.”
Jackson was serving a 30-year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1985 shooting death of his common-law wife, Freda Jackson, when he walked away from a work detail installing furniture at the state Capitol in 1994. Prosecutors said Jackson escaped to meet Cade, but then killed her at a motel because she was going to end their relationship and not help him in an upcoming parole bid. Cade, 29, was slashed and stabbed her more than 30 times with a box cutter that prison officials gave Jackson to open boxes of furniture. Jackson testified he was so drunk he couldn’t remember what happened in the motel room.
A week after Cade’s death, then-Gov. David Walters ordered the Corrections Department to move 113 convicted murderers to medium- or maximum security.
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