Sister Helen Prejean, best known as the "Dead Man Walking" nun, has accompanied six prisoners to their executions — and barring what she concedes would be a "miracle," she'll witness her seventh on Wednesday, NBC News reported.
Richard Glossip, who has been on death row for 18 years, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 3 p.m. CT in Oklahoma despite pleas for a last-minute reprieve from Prejean, football coach Barry Switzer and actress Susan Sarandon, who played the nun in the 1995 Oscar-winning film.
"I don't think anybody should be put to death by the state but it just seems so glaring in his case," Prejean said.
Glossip reached out to the nun in January, a few weeks before his last execution date. That was delayed after the U.S. Supreme Court took up his challenge to the particular combination of drugs that Oklahoma uses to kill inmates.
The high court eventually sided with the state, and Glossip's more recent appeals, which argue he is actually innocent of orchestrating the murder of his boss, have been rejected by the courts.
