Oklahoma governor halts execution of inmate Richard Glossip

The ad encourages residents to contact Gov. Mary Fallin’s office and request a 60-day stay of execution.

Oklahoma law lists potassium chloride, which can stop the heart, as an acceptable drug – but not potassium acetate.

State officials said they became aware Wednesday that Oklahoma’s drug supplier had shipped it potassium acetate rather than potassium chloride, the third of three drugs administered under the Department of Corrections’ guidelines.

“There was a dozen of us and we just gathered arm in arm and said whatever caused the stay we’ll take it”, he said. At the same time, however, the death penalty appears to be on the wane in most of the country, with fewer death sentences, death row inmates, and executions than in the past.

The ad says there is a “breathtaking” lack of evidence in the case.

Glossip was also granted a stay of execution September 16. In the hour that followed, corrections officials awaiting word that it was underway said things were on hold.

Over the course of the next week, Oklahoma and three other states have a total of four executions scheduled.

After Governor Fallin and Attorney General Scott Pruitt discussed the incident, Governor Fallin issued Glossip’s stay.

A prison spokeswoman said there are no plans to delay the executions scheduled for Cole and Grant.

News 9 is looking into more details as to what exactly happened Wednesday afternoon involving the drug cocktail just before Glossip was scheduled to die.

On Wednesday, Georgia executed its first woman in seven decades, Kelly Gissendaner.

Glossip’s new execution date is November 6.

To the United States last week throughout the pontiff’s visit, he encouraged Congress to abolish the death penalty. She was pronounced dead early Wednesday after lethal injection at a state prison in Jackson.

His archbishop had written to her and urged her to act to commute the sentence, but she said she did not have the authority to do so. It was only when a detective told him that “he knew” Glossip masterminded the whole affair that Snead changed his account of Glossip’s involvement. In two trials Glossip, 52, was found guilty of hiring former coworker Justin Sneed in 1997 to murder their boss, who owned the motel in Oklahoma City where the two men worked. “My sincerest sympathies go out to the Van Treese family, who has waited so long to see justice done”.

He had been on California’s death row since 1992 for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl, Yvette Woodruff, in Ontario.

Sneed is serving a life sentence and avoided the death penalty by testifying against Glossip.

Sneed’s statements in the video vastly differed from his trial testimony, where he made the elaborate claim that Glossip instructed him to purchase trash bags, a hack saw and muriatic acid to dispose of Van Treese’s corpse. Justices ultimately rejected his appeal.

“We should all be deeply concerned about an execution under such circumstances”, Donald Knight, an attorney for Glossip, said in a statement.

Melissa Johnson, a resident of McAlester, Oklahoma – where executions are carried out – was also outside the prison with her 19-year-old son and his girlfriend. “Even if these executions continue to go through, I think it does show the public and decision makers how flawed it really is”. The appellate court has since denied the request for a new hearing on the basis of such new evidence. He was the lead plaintiff in a case challenging the use of the drug midazolam in lethal injections, following the botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett. His execution is scheduled for October 7. Their lawyers argued that the use of Midazolam, a drug meant to induce unconsciousness, violated the U.S. constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Oklahoma first used midazolam in the Lockett execution.

Pope Francis had encouraged the execution to stop.

Glossip’s case and claims of innocence have attracted high-profile supporters who have asked the state to call off Glossip’s execution due to the questions over his conviction.