Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate, and Gentner Drummond, the state's attorney general, are asking the Supreme Court to grant Glossip a new trial.

The Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with an appeal from an Oklahoma death row inmate who even the state’s conservative attorney general believes should not be executed, with some justices signaling a willingness to let state courts further review allegations that prosecutors withheld evidence in the case.

The Supreme Court was divided over the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who is seeking a new trial after decades of maintaining his innocence.