which is important, one applicant can be a seventh generation applicant that had been to a certain school, had endowments, had money, had higher people to help apply for college, has more access to things versus someone who might be a first-generation person of color. that same applicant could have the same scores, the same everything, and not be accepted just because of race. it evens the playing snead it s a legacy admission. that s something the court will also look at. sean, you just heard gwen. obviously she s affected by this. what would you say to her that this feels like they re taking down diversity and opportunity? i think what they re taking down is racism. we ve heard a lot about systemic racism over the last couple years. there s no more systemic form of racism in america than the racist admissions policies for major universities.
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
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
roberts ankles. come on, man. that s too tight for me. more than 40 hours into the interrogation, and the speed tells more bad news. overwhelming evidence of robert s guilt. i don t need it. i ve got evidence out that as. dust is made of mostly humans dead skin. that can be picked up. that dna i m not going to be able to keep you from the worst, robert. if you don t talk to me, i can t keep you from the worst. i wasn t there. you were. you were there! that evidence shows you were there. i cannot lie about the evidence. not only was that false, there was no dna found in this case. lobster then goes on to say, i can t lie to you about this, robert. in fact, he s lying about lying. officer snead tells robert, he faces what snead calls, the ultimate punishment. he also says, falsely, that he s been talking to robbers mother on the phone. i told your mom that i would
recall was convicted for hiring someone to kill his boss, even though that witness the actual killer seems rather unconvincing to many observers, including the oklahoma state attorney general . glossip s execution is now set for may 18th. this all comes just two weeks after a special counsel in that state released a report that uncovered new evidence in glossip s case. and suggested that his murder convicted conviction should be vacated. cnn s brynn gingras is always is with us on the story and bring in. what was the evidence uncovered in glossip s case of that evidence is from a box that was finally given to the defense team for richard glossip from the prosecutor s office. and in that box, there was just a lot of paperwork that talked about justin sneed, the person that you just pointed out who actually killed barry van trees. the boss of snead and glossip in this murder decades ago. some of that included justin sneed, actually wanting to recant his testimony to his asking about it,