Murder of Albert Hale
On March 6, 1997, seven days before his 74th birthday,
Albert Troy Hale (March 13, 1923 – March 6, 1997) was attacked and murdered by a friend in his house at
Oklahoma City over Hale's refusal to give his friend money to buy cocaine. The killer,
James Allen Coddington (March 22, 1972 – August 25, 2022), was charged and convicted of the murder, and
sentenced to death in 2003. After exhausting all his appeals (which ended in failure) and losing his clemency plea, Coddington, whose death sentence was overturned in 2006 before it was restored in 2008, was executed via
lethal injection on August 25, 2022.
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