US court halts execution of man who received ‘unfair’ trial
Al JazeeraThe United State Supreme Court put the execution of Richard Gossip indefinitely on hold in a ruling on Friday. The United States Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing death-row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in a 1997 murder-for-hire, after the state’s attorney general agreed his life should be spared. “There is nothing more harrowing than the thought of executing a man who the state now admits has never received a fair trial,” Glossip’s lawyer Don Knight said in a statement. “When police came to talk to Glossip about Van Treese’s whereabouts, he directed away from the room he knew Van Treese was in,” Prater said on Friday. He even helped Sneed clean up everything.” He added Sneed and Glossip also had a large amount of cash that Prater believes they stole from Van Treese’s car.