Oklahoma Halts Execution of Richard Glossip

In an open letter published in The Oklahoman on Wednesday, the scheduled date of Glossip's execution, Branson pleads for the life of a "man, father, son and fellow human being" who was convicted of first-degree murder 17 

Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma man whose execution was temporarily put on hold earlier this month but who is now set to die on Wednesday, made one final plea to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday evening. In a pair of 

Two more people are slated to be executed in the United States in the coming days. Today, the state of Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Richard Glossip. In 1997, Glossip was working as a manager at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City when his boss, 

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Glossip. Glossip is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File) 

I can't tell you for sure if Richard Glossip paid for his boss to be killed in 1997. What we do know is that he didn't physically kill his boss, several witnesses have said for years that the man who did it concocted Glossip's role in