Life in prison for couple who gave drugs to friend

A couple has been sentenced to life in prison for supplying the drugs that killed a friend of theirs two and a half years ago. 36-year-old James Carter and his wife 55-year-old Val Carter were found guilty of felony murder in the death of 52-year-old Debra Coley. Coley, of Houston County, died after she took an injection of Oxycodone while she was already intoxicated more than double the state's legal limit. The Carters, of Jones County, gave Coley the narcotic as the three friends sat in Val Carter's pickup truck outside a home where Coley had been staying. According to testimony during the trial, the Carters left Coley alive outside the home, where she was later found dead with an injection mark in her right forearm.