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"Attorneys for an Oklahoma death row inmate who won a two-week reprieve
from his scheduled execution are working on two legal fronts in an
effort to save their client's life.
While
one team of lawyers for Richard Glossip is trying to convince a state
appeals court that their client is innocent, another group of public
defenders is in federal court again challenging the use of a
controversial sedative as part of a three-drug formula that will be used
to kill him.
Glossip,
52, was just hours away from being executed Wednesday when the Oklahoma
Court of Criminal Appeals ordered his execution halted for two weeks so
they could have time to review a lengthy legal filing his lawyers had
filed a day earlier. Glossip's attorneys want the court to grant an
evidentiary hearing so they can call witnesses and go over new facts
that they claim "seriously call into question the reliability of Mr.
Glossip's conviction and death sentence."
So
far the court has only delayed Glossip's execution until Sept. 30 so
they can have time to review the last-minute filing and have not agreed
to grant a hearing.........
Among
the new evidence Glossip's attorneys presented is a signed affidavit
from another inmate, Michael Scott, who claims he heard Sneed say "he
set Richard Glossip up, and that Richard Glossip didn't do anything."
The Oklahoman reported Saturday that Scott, according to a prisons
system document, once labeled himself a habitual liar.
"
http://www.normantranscript.com/attorneys-working-on-fronts-to-spare-death-row-inmate/article_1ab24532-8f0e-5cf0-a418-f78b62dbcfe3.htm