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Oklahoma governor grants Richard Glossip 60-day stay of execution

Oklahoma governor grants Richard Glossip 60-day stay of execution


Oklahoma governor grants Richard Glossip 60-day stay of execution
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Glossip asked for a new evidentiary hearing following the release of an independent investigation by the Houston law firm Reed Smith that raised new questions about his guilt.

Glossip, 59, has long maintained his innocence. He has been scheduled to be executed three separate times, only to be spared shortly before the sentence was set to be carried out.

He was just hours from being executed in September 2015 when prison officials realized they had received the wrong lethal drug, a mix-up that helped prompt a nearly seven-year moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma.

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