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As we continue our conversation with Sister Helen Prasjan, one of the world's most well-known anti-death penalty activists.

She is the spiritual advisor to Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossop, whose May 18th execution date was stayed by the Supreme Court on Friday.

This comes after Oklahoma's Republican attorney general filed a joint motion with Glossop's defense team to halt his execution saying he did not receive a fair trial.

The case dates back to 1997 when Richard Glossop was working as a motel manager in Oklahoma City and his boss Barry Ventress was murdered.

A maintenance worker, Justin Sneed, admitted to beating Ventress to death with a baseball bat but claimed Glossop offered him money for the killing.

The case rested almost entirely on Sneed's claims and no physical evidence tied Glossop to the crime.

Sneed, in exchange for his testimony, did not get the death penalty.

For more, we're continuing in Oklahoma City with Sister Helen Prasjan.

This is the ninth time Richard Glossop had an execution date that has been put on hold.

Sister Helen Prasjan, let's start there.

You had just visited Richard when he learned right after that his execution date, his execution had been stayed.

First though we had a conversation about this in part one, just talk about his and your response.

Richard was so afraid of was that on May 11th, one week before the execution, he would be placed in this holding cell, the death watch cell, where they have bright lights, three video cameras on you.

You're stripped down to your undersharts. They don't want you to have clothes like long pants where you might try to commit suicide and hang yourself.

He had gone through that experience twice before and lost 25 pounds with the bright lights and all.

It's a torture chamber and you could he could hear them practicing for his execution next in the chamber right next to it.

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