In a case that has drawn the attention of Sister Helen Prejean and Susan Sarandon,attorney says Glossip has been sentenced to death ‘because he’s poor’ as lawyers race to win a 60-day stay before Wednesday’s scheduled executionOklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip may be running out of time before Wednesday, when he is scheduled to be executed by deadly injection, or but the attorneys fighting tooth-and-nail to convince Governor Mary Fallin to grant him a 60-day stay of execution announced this week that they have uncovered novel information adding doubt to his already widely contested conviction. In several novel statements from sources with knowledge of the case,Glosssip’s attorneys on Friday challenged the narrative of the prosecution’s most critical witness and, days before he is to be executed, and put novel fuel on a fire that has been carried by several of Glossip’s tall-profile supporters,including activist Sister Helen Prejean and actor Susan Sarandon.
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Source: theguardian.com