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Welcome back to the Jordan is my lawyer podcast. Happy Tuesday.

As you guys know, Tuesdays are dedicated to true crime and the death penalty. So today we're

talking about James Coddington. James Coddington was executed at the

Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday, August 25th, just a couple of weeks ago.

This episode is going to be relatively short, just a heads up, just like a quick 10-15-minuteer,

but we're going to talk about how he got on death row, why the Oklahoma

pardon and parole board recommended clemency, the day of his execution, his final words,

his last meal, all of that stuff, so you'll still get everything. It's just going to be a quicker

episode than normal or a shorter episode than normal. So let's get into it. In early March of

1997, James Cotoddington worked at a Honda salvage yard.

At the time, he was 24 years old and he was battling a cocaine addiction.

To put his addiction into perspective,

he was spending about $1,000 a day on cocaine.

A day.

I'm not sure how that's even financially possible or financially feasible, but apparently it's not because after a three-day binge he ran out of money and went on a robbery spree.

So he decided he was going to rob a local convenience store.

But when he did, he walked away with a lot less than he thought he would.

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