Richard Glossip has spent 27 years behind bars, most of it on Oklahoma's death row, coming close enough to execution that he has had nine separate execution dates and been fed three “last meals.” On Tuesday,

The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”

In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the conviction was unsound.