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Oklahoma Prepares to Kill Prisoner James Coddington After Gov. Stitt Denies Clemency

HeadlineAug 25, 2022

In Oklahoma, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt has ordered condemned prisoner James Coddington to be put to death by means of lethal injection today — despite a vote by Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board to grant him clemency instead. Coddington is the first of 25 Oklahoma men scheduled to die over the next two years. Many suffer severe mental illness and had trials marked by racial bias and prosecutorial misconduct. It’s Oklahoma’s fifth planned execution since October, when it resumed the death penalty after a six-year hiatus that followed a botched execution in 2015. After headlines, we’ll hear from anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean and get the latest from Oklahoma.

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