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April 7, 2023

Oklahoma AG Says Conviction of Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip Should Be Vacated 
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Oklahoma's attorney general is asking for the murder conviction of death
row prisoner Richard Glossip to be vacated, in a decades-long case in
which Glossip narrowly escaped execution three times. In 1997,
19-year-old maintenance worker Justin Sneed killed the owner of a budget
motel in Oklahoma. He admitted to the murder but accused Glossip, the
motel's manager, of orchestrating it, allowing Sneed to avoid the death
penalty. Glossip has always maintained his innocence. Oklahoma's
attorney general cited evidence in a new report that shows Sneed - who
was a heavy drug user at the time of the murder - gave false testimony
about his psychiatric condition, and the state's failure to turn over
key evidence. An appeals court must now decide whether to vacate
Glossip's conviction and order a new trial. Glossip is currently
scheduled to be executed on May 18.


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