Death Row Inmate Glossip Granted a 2 Week Stay...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-glossip-stay_55f99f1de4b0e333e54c28fc

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Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip won a last-minute reprieve from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, just a few hours prior to his scheduled execution.

In its brief order, the court decided to "reset" Glossip's execution to Sept. 30 in order "to give fair consideration to the materials included" with his request for a stay.

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In 1997, Best Budget Inn handyman Justin Sneed confessed to beating his boss, Barry Van Treese, to death with a baseball bat. A week later, Sneed said that Glossip, his supervisor at the Oklahoma City motel, had instructed him to do it. Glossip was convicted of murder and sentenced to death during a 2004 retrial. Sneed is serving a life sentence at a medium-security prison after striking a deal to finger Glossip in the plot.

The state's case against Glossip lacks forensic evidence and relies almost entirely on Sneed's testimony. An appeals court found Glossip's 1998 trial so poorly defended by Glossip's since-disbarred attorney that it overturned his conviction. Glossip was represented at his retrial by the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System and was convicted again in 2004.

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