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"Oklahoma’s highest
criminal-appeals court granted Richard Glossip an eleventh-hour stay of
execution Wednesday until September 30 to hear new evidence he may have
been framed. ........As concerns about Glossip’s possible innocence grew over the summer, a
broad array of public figures urged Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to
stay Glossip’s execution for 60 days to allow new evidence to be heard,
including
Sister Helen Prejean, former Senator Tom Coburn, and former University
of Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer. Oklahoma City District Attorney
David Prater dismissed their efforts a “
bullshit P.R. campaign” on Monday. Fallin announced Tuesday she saw “no reason to cast doubt on the
guilty verdict reached by the jury or to delay Glossip’s sentence of
death”
and
ruled out a temporary reprieve.
Glossip’s legal team then petitioned the Oklahoma Court of Criminal
Appeals, the state’s highest criminal-appeals court, to intervene. The
court granted the stay less than eight hours before his scheduled
execution at 5 p.m.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-troubling-case-of-richard-glossip/405646/