Gov. Mary Fallin denied a 60-day stay of execution for Richard Glossip, who is set to die by lethal injection today. Glossip claims he is innocent and has thousands of supporters, including Susan Sarandon and Richard Branson.
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Officials in Oklahoma on Wednesday are set to execute Richard Fallin, a man convicted of the 1997 murder of his former boss but who has long protested his innocence.
Glossip is set to be put to death at 4 p.m. ET for the murder of Barry Van Treese, the owner of a motel at which he worked. Van Treese was found beaten to death with a baseball bat in a room of the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City.
Justin Sneed, a maintenance worker at the motel, confessed to killing Van Treese, but under police interrogation said that Glossip offered him money to carry out the murder.
In exchange for testifying against Glossip, Sneed is serving life in prison, while Glossip was sentenced to death for his role as the mastermind of the murder.
Glossip, 52, has maintained his innocence for more than 17 years on death row.
Thousands of people, led by actress Susan Sarandon and renowned anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, have signed petitions to stop Glossip from being executed.
The case has received more media attention than any of the other 20 executions in the United States this year.
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin rejected a request for a 60-day stay of execution requested by Glossip's attorneys, who said they have new evidence to prove his innocence.
His attorneys then filed a petition with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to stop the execution and to grant Glossip an evidentiary hearing.
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