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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If only Oklahoma had John Fetterman on their parole board. James Coddington would be a free man by now!
Thank you. He bore 2 responsibilities: Before the LAW AND before God.
If he trusted Christ he is forgiven by God and will not bear the punishment for his sin.
He committed a crime and broke the law established in Oklahoma. He paid the price of his crime with his life.
One has very little to do with the other.
This is a serious crime that He can’t simply say “You just killed someone in cold blood. Everything’s cool. You’re forgiven dude”
Would you mind telling us who?
Actually I did mention it in the past. Especially since we all knew the murderer and those murdered.
How the prison at McAlester could forget an execution had everyone shaking their heads.
It’s weird to find you knew a murderer
I had often talked to a security guard at a place I worked who turned out to have murdered Kayleigh Ann Poulton, and stuffed her in the water tower of the place we worked.
No long term conversations, just hello and other nonsense when entering the building- but there was one girl that was a friend of mine that refused to go into that door when he was working there.
He was always observed to be kinda weird.
True. I have never read Ecclesiastes 8:11 before. -— Justice delayed, is justice denied. To the victim’s family in this case.
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I’m surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.
Delmar O’Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That’s not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi’s a little more hard-nosed.
God Forgives-I Don’t
packrat35
Justice would have been him being put to death by lethal hammer blows!!!
Broken on the wheel with hammers.
That jumped off the screen, for me and my editor eyes....
“beating his friend and coworker with a hammer after the friend refused to give him money for drugs.”
Not great but you aren’t confused. Or, are you? (Grin)
No, I’m not confused, about that at least. I know what the headline writer meant; it’s just not what he wrote.
not my job...
Most likely, he did not read his words after typing them.
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
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Two points: Those taxpayers footing the bill to keep that murderer cozy and healthy included the family members of the victim. Think about that! And secondly, in any truly civilized country where the physical safety of law-abiding citizens is at or very near the top of the list of the government’s responsibility, that murderer would have been tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed within weeks of his apprehension. But not here, only in a truly civilized country.
What a dirtbag. Guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
His dad was crazy too. 3 generations of crazy, and I think the son had a kid.
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