The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals refused to stop it. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board also declined to intervene. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to stay Richard Glossip’s May 18 execution. Glossip’s corrupt case serves as Exhibit A that Oklahoma’s death penalty system is anything but just. For a special midweek Observercast – With This Set Of Facts – Colleen McCarty, founding executive director of the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, joins us to discuss Glossip’s case and why even the Oklahoma Attorney General and uber-conservative, pro-death penalty Republican lawmakers oppose his execution.

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