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Texas and Oklahoma are among a handful of states with laws – being challenged by death penalty opponents – that allow prison officials not to disclose where they get execution drugs.

Defense attorneys for an Oklahoma death row inmate set for execution next week have filed an affidavit from a second former cellmate who claims the condemned man was framed.

Glossip was scheduled for execution last week, but an Oklahoma court delayed it after his attorneys said they had new evidence.

One inmate said he overheard Sneed say that Glossip was “innocent” and that “he’d set Glossip up”.

September 15, 2015 – After Gov. Mary Fallin refuses to delay Glossip’s execution, Glossip’s attorneys notify the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals that they have new evidence.