Oklahoma Executes James Coddington for 1997 Hammer Killing

Oklahoma Executes James Coddington for 1997 Hammer Killing
James Coddington. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP
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McALESTER, Okla.—Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing.

James Coddington, 50, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. Gov. 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 be put to death since the state resumed executions last year.