A fractured Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose appeal drew national attention and support from the state’s conservative attorney general,

WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court overruled an Oklahoma court that ordered Richard Glossip executed over the objection of the state’s attorney general, who determined the inmate’s conviction for a 1997 murder was too flawed to justify putting him to death.

The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”