Supreme Court for their decision to grant a stay of execution,” Drummond said in a statement Friday. Lea Glossip, left, wife of death row inmate Richard Glossip, listens with death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, right, during a news conference on Thursday, May 4, in Oklahoma City. Stitt, McDugle and the attorney general are Republicans. Kevin Stitt to issue a third 60-day reprieve to give the courts time to review Glossip’s case. Kevin McDugle said Thursday, as legislators and faith leaders called on Gov. “There has never been an execution in the history of this country where the state and the defense agreed that the defendant was not afforded a fair trial,” state Rep. Phil McGraw, Innocence Project board member Jason Flom, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and a bipartisan group of 62 Oklahoma legislators, are hoping to save his life, pointing to a myriad of questions about his guilt and the process that landed him on death row. Similarly, a growing pool of supporters that includes not only his wife and attorneys, but media star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian, TV talk show host Dr. A special counsel is now reviewing his case 'When does time finally run out?' Richard Glossip has maintained his innocence for 26 years on death row. Glossip, a former motel manager, is convicted of murder for ordering the 1997 killing of his boss, Barry Van Treese. Married just last year, their life together has so far been limited to visits and phone calls. Glossip, 60, remains hopeful his life will be spared so he and his wife can continue to build one together – maybe outside the walls of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The hold will stay in place while the justices consider Glossip’s requests that they formally take up his case. I want to continue to get my message out to people,” Glossip said in a phone call Friday afternoon. He and his wife “just grabbed each other” after they found out, he said. “I yelled out, ‘you’re kidding!’ at first,” Glossip first told CNN.

Both Glossip and his wife were told about the Supreme Court stay together, he says.

With about 30 minutes left in their visit, someone knocked on the door and asked them to come out into the hall. He was facing what could be the final days of his life.Īt the time of the emergency hold, Glossip was in what he believed would be a final visit with his wife, Lea, an Oklahoma state official close to the Glossip case told CNN. The decision comes after Glossip has endured 26 years behind bars, nine execution dates, three last meals and two independent investigations that raised serious doubts about his conviction. The US Supreme Court on Friday halted the execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, a man who even the state attorney general says should not face the death penalty.

The Suspect's Daughter by Donna Hatch