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		</div><p>Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has vowed to fight for the next 40 days to save the life of a US death row inmate whose execution was postponed at the last minute.</p>
<p>He says Richard Glossip, convicted of ordering his boss’s murder, is innocent and did not receive a fair trial.</p>
<p>The state of Oklahoma issued a last-minute stay of execution until November 6 over concerns about one of the three drugs to be used in the lethal injection, potassium acetate.</p>
<p>Speaking in Dublin, Mr Branson said he celebrated the postponement with his rock star friend Bono.</p>
<p>“We were particularly celebrating last night, a guy called Richard was about to be executed in America – we’re all absolutely convinced he’s innocent – and he got a 40 day reprieve,” he said.</p>
<p>“We’ve been campaigning with the government to try and get him reprieved.</p>
<p>“So it gives 40 more days to try and make sure an innocent man doesn’t get executed.”</p>
<p>Owner of the Oklahoma City motel Barry Van Treese, Glossip’s boss, was found beaten to death in 1997.</p>
<p>Glossip was found guilty of recruiting his co-worker Justin Sneed to carry out the killing.</p>
<p>His conviction was based on the evidence of Sneed, who negotiated a life sentence by claiming Glossip masterminded the murder.</p>
<p>For almost two decades, Glossip has proclaimed his innocence while his lawyers have questioned Sneed’s credibility.</p>
<p>Richard Branson took out a full-page ad in an Oklahoma newspaper before the planned execution on Wednesday accusing the state of putting to death a man whose guilt has not been proven beyond reasonable doubt.</p>
<figure id="attachment_80425" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-80425" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image11.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image11.jpg" alt="Richard Glossip" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-80425" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-80425" class="wp-caption-text">Richard Glossip</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pope Francis has also appealed against the execution.</p>
<p>In the Irish capital to rebrand the UPC cable company as Virgin Media, Sir Richard also revealed he cried when Germany declared it was opening its doors to migrants.</p>
<p>The tycoon behind the global Virgin brand said the world owed Europe’s powerhouse the “biggest hug” for doing the right thing.</p>
<p>“It brought tears to my eyes and a lot of people’s eyes when Germany offered to take a million people in, and we saw the train loads of people going to Germany,” he said.</p>
<p>“Germany needs the biggest hug from the world for their bravery, for doing the right thing.”</p>
<p>Mr Branson said Germany stands to financially benefit enormously from the effective open-door policy, which has proved controversial within the country.</p>
<p>“If you turn the clock forward five years, Germany will be a much stronger country as a result, but they still did the right thing,” he said.</p>
<p>“There are certainly countries that could benefit from taking more refugees in, and obviously the refugees themselves desperately need homes.”</p>
<p>Richard Branson said he was also celebrating U2’s birthday while in Ireland.</p>
<p>“We actually celebrated the fact that U2 formed 39 years ago last night,” he told a press briefing.</p>
<p>“So we had a few drinks with Bono. He’s a good friend and we’ve done some good things over the years.</p>
<p>“He’s always very supportive of anything we do, and we’re always very supportive of anything he does.</p>
<p>“We spent a lot of time talking about lots of different things, connectivity in the world, what’s going on in Africa, and we had a few fun drinks as well.”</p>
<p>Mr Branson, whose Virgin Rail trains operate on both Britain’s East and West Coast Lines, initially declined to comment on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for renationalising the railway network.</p>
<p>But he later returned to the subject, saying: “People need to remember what rail was like in the 1980s when it was run by government.</p>
<p>“It was diabolical, and it’s been transformed since, and that’s all I’ll say on that subject.”</p>
<p>Before his election as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn once remarked: “We (the public) rebuild the West Coast Main line and then praise Richard Branson for running a protected and (to him) profitable service of Pendolino trains. Something is wrong.”</p>
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