Oklahoma will execute a (quite possibly) innocent man on Wednesday. It's time to call Mary.

No need to visit Saudi Arabia, North Korea or China -- the United States has its own rogue state content to execute citizens based on dubious evidence. It's called Oklahoma.

And, on Wednesday, if nothing changes -- and nothing is likely to change, barring a miracle -- Richard Glossip will die.

Glossip's execution, which was delayed at the last minute two weeks ago, is set to go forward on Wednesday, September 30, thanks to a 3-2 ruling by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. And the court has made it clear it won't issue another stay.

Even before the stay, the case was so controversial that former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, a supporter of the death penalty, signed onto an open letter asking Gov. Mary Fallin to stop Glossip's execution from going forward. Evidence kept coming out — as late as the night before Glossip's original execution date — that suggested Glossip didn't do what prosecutors said he did, or that prosecutors destroyed evidence that could have proved Glossip right and prosecutors wrong.

To Glossip's defenders, the fact that the final ruling in his case came down to a single judge is just another sign that there is too much doubt to execute him.

Glossip will be executed using an experimental drug regime that the Supreme Court just ruled (in a case filed by Glossip and other Oklahoma death row inmates) isn't unconstitutional, even though there's a risk of a very painful death. But the question in Glossip's case has become whether he should be executed at all.

So, a few things:

1.) Even Tom Coburn opposes this execution.

2.) Oklahoma will probably be using homemade drugs from Texas that will likely cause a torturous death for a man that is likely innocent.

And, here's one other thing: Glossip did not kill anyone. He's being executed based on the dubious accusation that he helped to cover up the murder of Van Treese, his boss at a motel.

But everyone agrees he didn't kill Van Treese himself. A fellow employee, Justin Sneed, confessed to killing Van Treese with a baseball bat.

But prosecutors argue that it was Glossip's idea to kill Van Treese because Glossip was embezzling money from the motel and was worried Van Treese would find out and fire him. So, prosecutors claim, he promised to pay Sneed to kill Van Treese instead.

There wasn't much evidence to support this theory. Van Treese's own brother testified that the budget shortfall at the motel wasn't that big — and detailed records about the motel's finances were apparently destroyed in a flood. The prosecution didn't present physical evidence tying Glossip to the crime scene; Sneed testified that Glossip helped him cover a window that was broken during the fight that led to Van Treese's death, but the shower curtain and duct tape used to cover the window weren't tested or entered as evidence. (They've since been destroyed, too.)

Please call Mary (I don't want to respect a coward like her by using her last name or the title of governor) and demand she halt the execution (you can hit "2" to talk to her secretary).

The Office of Governor Mary Fallin

Oklahoma State Capitol
2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Room 212
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Local: (405) 521-2342
Fax: (405) 521-3353

If you call, and I hope you will, let us know how it went in the comments.