Glossip Granted Stay:  An Oklahoma appeals court has granted an emergency two-week stay of execution for a death row inmate to allow judges time to consider his last-minute appeal that new evidence supports his claim that he was framed.  CBS News reports that 52-year-old Richard Eugene Glossip received a death sentence for ordering the 1997 fatal beating of Barry Van Treese, the owner of the motel where Glossip worked.  His first sentence in 1998 was overturned due to ineffective legal counsel, and he was retried and sentenced again in 2004.  His current appeal claims that a fellow inmate of Justin Sneed, the prosecution's key witness in Glossip's trial who received a life sentence in exchange for his testimony, said in an affidavit that he heard Sneed say that Glossip didn't do anything.  Earlier this year Glossip and two other murderers lost a U.S. Supreme Court case claiming that the state's three-drug execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment.  Glossip's execution has been stayed until Sept. 30.

Charleston Shooter Wants to Deal:  The man accused of shooting nine parishioners at a church in South Carolina is willing to plead guilty to murder charges in order to avoid the death penalty, his attorney said Wednesday.  Harriet McLeod of Reuters reports that a guilty plea would also avoid a trial in the case against Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man who gunned down nine black churchgoers during a Bible study at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.  The case's latest hearing addresses whether a judge will release 911 calls and police reports about the June 17 massacre, all of which were sealed by a judge in July.  In addition to state murder charges, Roof faces 33 federal hate crime and weapons charges that could also result in a death sentence.

Border Sheriffs Fed Up With Feds:  Sheriffs from western states and along the border gathered for a conference in Sierra Vista, AZ, to discuss and collaborate on a "unified front" of the many issues affecting the U.S.-Mexico border's law enforcement community.  Ildefonso Ortiz of Breitbart reports that Danny Glick, President of the National Sheriffs' Association, was openly critical of the federal government's apathy and avoidance in facing the problem, stating "we are under assault and this administration refuses to do something about it."  Drug cartels were also a topic of concern at the conference.  Arizona State Senator Gail Griffin told how she woke up one morning in her house along the border to spot a cartel gunman armed with an AK-47 leading a pack of drug smugglers through her property.  The sheriffs are asking Washington to "pay attention, enforce the law and stop putting things on our back."