Richard Glossip, Spared Execution A Fourth Time, Describes 'Torture' Of Uncertainty
Huff PostMCALESTER, Okla. -- About 90 minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection, Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip said guards came to take his property and clothes. "It was pure torture, I’m not gonna lie.” Kim Bellware/The Huffington Post Outside the prison, Glossip's family and friends faced similar uncertainty. For the six people Glossip had chosen as witnesses to his execution -- activist nun Sister Helen Prejean, friends Crystal Martinez and Kim Van Atta, attorney Kathleen Lord, Sky News reporter Ian Woods and a reporter from The Huffington Post -- the uncertainty extracted grim recollections. The Supreme Court denied Glossip's petition for a stay four minutes before his scheduled execution time Wednesday afternoon. "My sense is that Richard is suffering from a kind of PTSD," said friend Mary Rzepski, the wife of Glossip's best friend, Kim Van Atta.
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