investigations have poked hole after hole in the case against glossip revealing the state s intentional destruction of evidence unquote. and inadequate police investigation, letters from snead in prison asking about whether he could recant his testimony. now, with the u.s. supreme court s temporary stay of execution today, glossip has endured nine execution dates, and three last meals, leaving his advocates wondering how many chances does he have left? cnn s brynn gingrass, do you know if he knows his execution has been at least temporarily stayed. last i heard, jake, he didn t know. i know you re going to talk to his attorney don knight. he was actually in the last visitation he was allowed before heading to death row, the death watch as they call it in the state of oklahoma, visiting with his wife, and also some of the lawmakers, those republican lawmakers, who hreally stood by him and supported him through all of this. last i heard he didn t yet. we will get the updates.
closer look at. so the defense team has a lot of hope, sure, it doesn t really look that way, though, this is a celebration certainly on glossip for the defense team. they re celebrating this right now. they don t anticipate the supreme court just pushing this aside. they do anticipate them actually taking a look at this case and making a decision about it. and it looks like this stay could happen you know, this isn t just a 30-day stay that glossip has had in the past from the governor, this could be a while if the justices do decide to take up this case and really thoroughry review it which is what i ve been asking for, for years, quite honestly. the republican lawmakers there, his defense team has been asking just take a look at this case, take a look at all this new evidence that has come up just within the last few months about justin snead as you mentioned at the top, the person who actually did the killing in this case, how he tried to recant his testimony, how there s allegat
temporarily the execution date of oklahoma death row inmate richard glosser, just for now, they re going to consider whether to take up his case. his conviction, soleilly flimsy, that even oklahoma s current attorney general says he can no longer support it. ask republican or democratic lawmakers in oklahoma it doesn t matter, they list multiple reasons why glossip should in the be executed. he has maintained his innocence all 26 years he has spent in prison, accused of hiring someone to murder his boss, barry van trees, the person who actually murdered van trees by beating him with a baseball bat. nobody questions that, that s justin snead, he s in prison too, not an death row, because snead secured a deal to avoid the death penalty. plead guilty, testify against glossip and you won t be put to death. since then two independent
so people tuning in, a guy named justin snead, nobody disputes the fact that justin snead killed barry van treece, everyone agrees that that happened. but the prosecutors cut a deal with justin snead, if he would testify that your husband paid him to kill barry van treece, then he would be spared the death penalty. and since then he has expressed regret, seemingly, for saying that. he has asked about recanting it, seemingly. and since then the law has actually been changed in oklahoma so that you cannot even be on death row if you are the hirer of a hit man, per se. what do you make of the fact that governor stitt, senator langford, senator mullens have not come out as aggressively as the attorney general, who is a pro-death penalty conservative republican, where are the other people from oklahoma who need to