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The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington in New York

Oklahoma lawmakers urge pause amid fears innocent man to be executed

people hold sign saying 'save richard glossip' outside supreme court
Activists rally on Glossip’s behalf in 2015. In their letter, the 61 legislators ask the attorney general to call for a hearing to consider new evidence that has been uncovered in the case. Photograph: Larry French/Getty Images for MoveOn.org

A letter signed by 61 Oklahoma lawmakers – most of them pro-death penalty Republicans – has been sent to the state’s attorney general calling for a new hearing in the case of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month.

Forty-four Republican and 17 Democratic legislators, amounting to more than a third of the state assembly, have written to John O’Connor pleading for the new hearing.

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