We can’t let a man die in such circumstances

On September 30, Richard Glossip came within hours of death in an Oklahoma prison before being granted a temporary stay of execution. 

The stay was not an act of mercy; the state discovered at the last minute it did not have the drugs it was required by law to use to kill him and had no choice but to put his death on hold — the second time in two weeks that this man had suffered the agony of coming dangerously close to the time he was scheduled to die.

Richard was condemned to death on the basis of the unsupported testimony of the man who admits the killing. Justin Sneed cut a deal with the prosecution for his “evidence”. In return for implicating Richard, and saying that he had asked him to commit the murder, he was spared the death penalty himself and now enjoys the comforts of a minimum security prison.