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 Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, citing prosecutorial misconduct that likely tainted his 2004 trial. The ruling in Glossip v.

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general agreed with the death row prisoner that he should get a new trial. Oklahoma’s state criminal court disagreed.