Posted on 08/25/2022 11:26:59 AM PDT by Morgana
Oklahoma executed a man on death throw on Thursday for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared.
James Coddington, 50, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10.16 a.m. Governor Kevin Stitt declined to commute Coddington's sentence to life in prison without parole and rejected his petition for clemency.
Coddington was the fifth Oklahoma inmate to have been put to death since the state resumed executions last year.
He was originally convicted and sentenced to die for beating his friend and coworker 73-year-old Albert Hale to death with a hammer inside Hale's Choctaw home.
Prosecutors say Coddington, then 24, became enraged when Hale refused to give him money to buy cocaine.
During a clemency hearing this month before the state's five-member Pardon and Parole Board, an emotional Coddington, now 50, apologized to Hale's family and said he was a different man today.
'I'm clean, I know God, I'm not ... I'm not a vicious murderer,' Coddington told the board. 'If this ends today with my death sentence, OK.'
But Mitch Hale, Albert Hale's son, urged the parole board not to recommend clemency, and said this week he was relieved Stitt decided to let the execution go forward.
'Our family can put this behind us after 25 years,' Hale, 64, said. 'No one is ever happy that someone's dying, but (Coddington) chose this path ... he knew what the consequences are, he rolled the dice and lost.'
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25 years after the killing.....so this POS has lived half his life after a cold-blooded murder, and is now being executed. Same old, same old...and after probably a million or two of tax-payer money for his legal fees, food, shelter, medical, etc. Pathetic. It would’ve been better to execute him shortly thereafter and saved the taxpayer a fortune, or partially compensate the decedent’s family for the crime. Or something. As the family of the murder victim said, this clown chose his path, rolled the dice and lost. More than once, and now for the final time.
The killer has been breathing air for 25 years. My prayers are not with him.
There’s a guy on Death Row right now that coached my son in flag football.
He was pretty crazy then, now he’s completely bonkers.
said he was a different man today..........
Yes. A dead man.....................
Terrible headline — it says that Coddington refused to give the old man money for drugs.
“to death with a hammer inside Hale’s Choctaw home.”
Choctaw Bingo by
Ray Wylie Hubbard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KB4dVMQfRE
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Way too long to feed and house this animal.
We had a local man kill some people in Oklahoma years go.
He got the death sentence.
When his day came to be executed, the State had forgotten all about him so he was not executed, just later commuted to life.
If Jesus forgives him then so do I.
Hmmmm...
Irony
Beat his friend to death because he wouldn’t give him drugs so, the state gave him drugs at last...
Check out James McMurtry’s live version
tell me you didn’t mention this not long ago
Yeehaw!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
It’s good, But I prefer Hubbard’s slower drawled version. Snake Farm is a hoot.
He kind of looks like the guy running for the senate in Pennsylvania.
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