By Ian Woods, Sky News Correpondent
A death row prisoner has been granted a stay of execution, the day before he was due to be killed by lethal injection.
Richard Glossip, and two other prisoners in Oklahoma, were given temporary reprieves by the United States Supreme Court amid concerns about a drug used in executions.
Midazolam is a sedative administered prior to a paralytic that prevents a prisoner flailing around, while a third drug stops their heart. But there has been criticism that the anaesthetic is not strong enough.
Last year, there was an outcry when problems administering the lethal cocktail led to a prisoner, Clayton Lockett, writhing in pain for 43 minutes before he died of a heart attack.
Glossip's attorney, Mark Kenricksen, told Sky News: "We should not use these human beings as lab rats for Oklahoma's attempt to find a constitutionally acceptable death penalty protocol, and that's why we're suing."
The Glossip case is highly unusual, because he is the only one of the 49 prisoners on Oklahoma's death row who did not actually kill anyone. He was accused of paying an accomplice to murder the owner of a motel where they worked.
The actual killer, Justin Sneed, was offered a plea deal. He escaped the death penalty in return for testifying against Glossip, and is serving a life sentence with no hope of parole.
Until a few weeks ago, there seemed to be little interest in Glossip's impending execution. Then, one of America's foremost abolitionists got involved.
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Gallery: Infamous Death Row Inmates
James Rose, aged 68. On death row in Florida since 13th May 1977. Crime: 1st degree murder of an eight year old girl on 22 October 1976. Pic: Florida department of corrections
William Zeigler, aged 69. On death row in Florida since 19th July 1976. Crime: Murdered his wife and parents-in-law on Christmas Eve 1975. Pic: Florida department of corrections
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