The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to delay Richard Glossip’s execution, which was supposed to take place Sept. 16, reports CNN.
Glossip was convicted of murder for Barry Van Treese in 1977, but concerns over evidence and execution methods have caused the court to grant him a stay.
According to CNN,
“The man who bludgeoned Van Treese to death, Justin Sneed, testified that Glossip hired him for the murder. But jurors weren't presented with evidence that Sneed gave contradictory accounts to police about what happened, wrote Sister Helen Prejean, who ministers to prisoners on death row.
Prejean also noted the lack of evidence linking Glossip to the crime.
Glossip's scheduled death will also be the first in Oklahoma since a bitterly divided Supreme Court allowed the use of the drug midazolam in June.
The drug was used in the highly publicized execution of Clayton Lockett last year. Lockett's execution was one of the longest in U.S. history; he moaned and writhed on the gurney for 43 minutes before dying of a heart attack.”
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