The Supreme Court is returning to the case of Richard Glossip, who has spent most of the past quarter century on Oklahoma’s death row for a murder he says he did not commit.

To be clear, I’m in an unusual position here,” Paul Clement, the former U.S. solicitor general who represented Oklahoma, told the court.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that has produced a rare alliance in which lawyers for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip and the state argued that the high court should overturn Glossip's conviction and death sentence because he did not get a fair trial.