A 50-year-old convicted murderer was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday after the governor rejected a recommendation of clemency from the pardon board of the central US state, IgbereTV reports
James Coddington was put to death by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said.
The execution began at 10:02 am and Coddington was pronounced dead 14 minutes later, said Scott Crow, the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
He said there were “absolutely no issues.”
“The execution today went in accordance with the protocol with no issues at all,” Crow said
