Stay In Execution Granted For Death Row Inmate James Coddington

The state and attorneys for death row inmate James Coddington have agreed to stay his execution, and a federal judge in Oklahoma City just issued an order doing just that.

He was originally scheduled for execution because he was one of six religious objectors who refused to list an alternative execution method while a challenge to the states lethal injection protocol moves forward. However, his attorneys and the state agree he thought he had submitted the alternative execution method.

They agree his execution should be stayed until after the trial against the states execution protocol scheduled to begin Feb of 2022.