OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death penalty opponents say they're looking for new evidence to exonerate an Oklahoma death row inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection in September.
Members of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty appeared with Sister Helen Prejean Monday on behalf of 52-year-old Richard Eugene Glossip, who is scheduled to be put to death on Sept. 16.
Glossip was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1997 beating death of Barry Alan Van Treese at a west Oklahoma City motel. But Prejean, a leading opponent of the death penalty and Glossip's spiritual adviser, says Glossip should not be executed.
Attorney Don Knight says the original police investigation was faulty and death penalty opponents are looking for evidence of Glossip's innocence in an effort to halt his execution.