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August 25, 2022

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