This opinion was originally published on August 28, 2022 by The Oklahoman I was in the execution chamber with James Coddington Thursday for the last 45 minutes of his life. When I entered, he was already strapped to a gurney, […]
By Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman, Aug. 23, 2022Green or red — the colors will symbolize life or death, mercy or no mercy, in a prominent anti-death penalty display outside a northwest Oklahoma City church. Twenty-five crosses have been erected along […]
The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) will host its 2022 Annual Awards Dinner & Meeting on Saturday, August 20. The fundraising event will be held at the Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene, 4400 Northwest Expressway. […]
June 27, 2022 / Death Penalty Information Center Oklahoma legislators announced that an independent investigation revealed strong evidence of Richard Glossip’s innocence. Glossip, who came within hours of execution in 2015, is the second prisoner the Oklahoma Attorney General is […]
June 13, 2022 / Death Penalty Information Center Oklahoma state prosecutors are pushing to schedule 25 executions over approximately two years, after a federal judge denied death-row prisoners’ challenge to the state’s controversial lethal-injection protocol. On June 10, 2022, Oklahoma […]
OK-CADP advances alternatives via public education, legislative advocacy, & research towards our mission to abolish the death penalty in Oklahoma.
OK-CADP 2021-2022 Executive Board:Chair – Rev. Don HeathVice Chair – Dr. Elizabeth OvermanSecretary – Margaret CoxTreasurer: Margie RoetkerChair Appointed Member – Leslie Fitzhugh2021 – 2022 At-Large Board Members:Randy BaumanMargaret CoxLeslie FitzhughKelley GarrettNykkia HarrisDr. Elizabeth OvermanEarnest Ware Oklahoma Coalition to […]
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To watch the James Coddington press conference click HERE. On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OK-CADP) held a press conference to plead for mercy for death row prisoner James Coddington, who is scheduled […]
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ACTION ALERT: In 1999, Julius Darius Jones, an African American 19-year-old former high school basketball state champion and star football player on academic scholarship at the University of Oklahoma, was arrested days after a businessman was shot to death in […]
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By Dillon Richards, KOCO News – Dec. 1, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for another death row inmate Gilbert Postelle. Postelle was convicted of four murders that happened on Memorial Day in 2005. […]
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By Shelby Banks, FOX23 News – Nov. 30, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has voted to deny clemency to Donald Grant in a 4-1 vote. Grant has been sitting on Oklahoma’s death row for 20 […]
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by: Kaylee Douglas/KFOR – Dec. 3, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt today denied the Pardon and Parole Board’s clemency recommendation for death row inmate, Bigler Stouffer. Bigler “Bud” Jobe Stouffer II, 79, was convicted of shooting Doug […]
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