Oklahoma executes James Coddington by lethal injection for beating his 73-year-old friend and coworker to death with a hammer after refusing to give him money for drugs

Daily Mail UK ^ | August 25, 2022 | ap

[Morgana]

May God have mercy on his soul.

[john drake]

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.

[dennisw]

The killer has been breathing air for 25 years. My prayers are not with him.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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.

[Red Badger]

said he was a different man today..........

Yes. A dead man.....................

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Terrible headline — it says that Coddington refused to give the old man money for drugs.

[dynachrome]

“to death with a hammer inside Hale’s Choctaw home.”

Choctaw Bingo by
Ray Wylie Hubbard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KB4dVMQfRE

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

So he got to peacefully fall asleep for having beaten a 73 year old to death? Doesn't seem quite fair.

[laweeks]

Way too long to feed and house this animal.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Morgana]

If Jesus forgives him then so do I.

[Vendome]

Hmmmm...

Irony

Beat his friend to death because he wouldn’t give him drugs so, the state gave him drugs at last...

[atc23]

Check out James McMurtry’s live version

[Gene Eric]

tell me you didn’t mention this not long ago

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

May God have mercy on his soul.
Don't think he is going to get the chance to plead his case before God. The presort will drop him into Hell rather fast.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Coddington was the fifth Oklahoma inmate to have been put to death since the state resumed executions last year."

Yeehaw!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!

[dynachrome]

It’s good, But I prefer Hubbard’s slower drawled version. Snake Farm is a hoot.

[jroehl]

He kind of looks like the guy running for the senate in Pennsylvania.