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| Oklahoma Man Executed for Slashing Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/24/2003 |
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A man convicted of killing a woman who picked him up and took him to a hotel, after he walked away from a prison work detail during a sentence for killing his common-law wife, was executed last week. Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40, was given a lethal injection April 17 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 Jim Thorpe Building at the state Capitol in 1994. Cade, 29, picked up Jackson and took him to a motel, where he slashed and stabbed her more than 30 times with a box cutter prison officials gave him to open boxes of furniture. The two had argued about Cade's plans to end their relationship and to not help his effort to win parole, authorities said. |
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