OK Attorney General files brief with Supreme Court asking to halt Glossip execution

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed court papers with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing why the execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip should be stopped.

Drummond says Glossip’s conviction for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese should be vacated and remanded back to district court amid revelations of false testimony by the prosecution’s key witness.

The case goes back to 1997, when Glossip and Justin Sneed were convicted...