Attorneys made an emergency request to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday afternoon, asking that it block Richard Glossip's execution.

Glossip is to receive a lethal injection at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the state penitentiary in McAlester for setting up the killing of an Oklahoma City motel owner.

The court took no immediate action.

Donald Knight, an attorney for Glossip, said he has new evidence for the court to consider involving Justin Sneed, the man who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for actually carrying out the baseball bat killing. Sneed said Glossip hired him to do it.