News Release
06/27/2008
W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General
Court Sets September Execution Date for Cummings
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals today set Sept. 25 as the execution date for Coal County death row inmate Jessie James Cummings, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.
Cummings was convicted and sentenced to death in Coal County District Court for the September 1991 murders of his sister, Judy Ann Moody Mayo, 42, and Mayo’s daughter, Melissa Moody, 11. An appeals court later reversed Cummings’ conviction for Mayo’s murder.
Edmondson requested the execution date June 16 after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Cummings’ final appeal of his conviction for Moody’s murder.
Currently, one other execution date is scheduled. Kevin Young is scheduled to be executed July 22 for the 1996 murder of 56-year-old Joseph Sutton in Oklahoma City.