Richard Glossip Execution Is Halted by Oklahoma Court

Three and a half hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection, Richard Glossip won a two-week reprieve on Wednesday from an Oklahoma appeals court, which said it wanted time to study new evidence filed by his lawyers the day before.

14, 1998 – Glossip is sentenced to death for the murder of Van Treese. Aug. 27, 2004 – Glossip is found guilty a second time after initial conviction was overturned on appeal. He received the same death sentence. May 28, 2014 – Glossip's execution date

Kim Bellware/The Huffington Post The McAlester, Oklahoma, prison where inmate Richard Glossip was scheduled to be executed before the court granted him a two-week reprieve, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Share on 

I am Jannie Coverdale. And as you can see, I live in OKC. You first came to my attention when you and others were protesting the drug that the State was using to execute people. Mr. Glossip, I am a member of the anti-death penalty group here, and I

Enter Richard Glossip, a man on death row in Oklahoma who, in less than 12 hours, is likely to be executed. Glossip is, according to Macy's account of evidence, the “mastermind” behind the 1997 motel room murder of Barry Van Treese. But others