WASHINGTON: The governor of the US state of Oklahoma issued a last-minute stay of execution for an inmate convicted of ordering a murder, amid questions over one of the lethal injection drugs.

Richard Glossip -- whose case had sparked appeals for clemency from Pope Francis, celebrities and others -- had been set to die in the afternoon, following a two-week reprieve to allow time to consider new evidence in his murder conviction.

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