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 U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in favor of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip in his bid to challenge his conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire plot and granted him a new trial.

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what would have been one of the first two executions in 15 years as the state shifts its posture on capital punishment.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who was found guilty of killing a motel owner but has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions," according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

A fractured Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose appeal drew national attention and support from the state’s conservative attorney general,

The justices heard arguments in October in a case that produced a rare alliance in which lawyers for Glossip and the state argued that the high court should overturn Glossip’s conviction and death sentence because he did not get a fair trial.