Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection method
FILE - This Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James Coddington. In a request filed Friday, June 10, 2022, Oklahoma Attorney General John OConnor is asking the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates, including Coddington.
The state Department of Corrections has asked that the first execution be set no earlier than Aug. 25, O'Connor wrote. He asked that the dates be set at four week intervals due to the time required for a clemency hearing for each inmate prior to an execution, and that the DOC requested executions be set at least 35 days after the court's order.
O'Connor suggested that the first inmate who should be put to death is James Coddington, whose March 10 executionafter U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot allowed him to join the lawsuit that ultimately failed. A phone call to the office of an attorney for Coddington rang unanswered Saturday. Defense attorneys have previously said Coddington has a mental illness.in Choctaw of co-worker Albert Hale, who prosecutors said had refused to lend Coddington $50 to buy drugs.
Second on the list, which the filing said was proposed based on when each inmate's appeals were exhausted, would be Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in the federal lawsuit. He was hours from being executed September 2015 when prison officials realized they had received
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