World News 1: Oklahoma death row inmate loses clemency bid despite attorney general appeal

[bob_turner]

Only Republican governor Kevin Stitt stands between Richard Glossip and the death chamber, with lethal injection set for 18 MayRichard Glossip, a death row prisoner in Oklahoma who has insisted he is innocent since he was convicted of murder 25 years ago, has been denied clemency even though the state’s Republican attorney general made an unprecedented appeal to spare his life.The pardon and parole board voted by 2-2 on Wednesday to deny Glossip, 60, clemency in the face of exceptional...

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