An Alabama Death Row inmate must get a new trial, a federal judge wrote several months ago. But that doesn’t mean it will happen anytime soon.

Instead, the state continues to fight to execute Christopher Barbour, despite learning that his DNA did not match the evidence found at a 1992 crime scene.

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office argues Barbour should not get a new trial, threatening to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, even though DNA found on the body of a murdered Montgomery mother recently revealed a match to her neighbor — a man who is now in prison for an unrelated killing.

Recently, an appeals court gave Alabama a two-month extension to explain why Barbour doesn’t deserve a new trial after all these years.

Meanwhile, Barbour still sits on death row.

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