CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield June 4, 2024 17:43:00
Codington, the man who was executed on thursday. his lawyers say he had a drug addiction and that led him to his violent crime of killing his friend by usings a hammer to steal money to pay for his drug habit. but now his lawyers say that he is remorseful. as he was remorseful and that he should not have been executed. they asked for clemency. and the state board granted that clemency. approved it on a 3-2 vote. but as you just heard fred say, the governor denied clemency and so he was the first...
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