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"Bizarre and quite Kafkaesque": Experts call out Supreme Court's "absurd" death penalty hearing
2 months, 2 weeks ago

"Bizarre and quite Kafkaesque": Experts call out Supreme Court's "absurd" death penalty hearing

Salon  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a rare capital punishment case that's seen the Oklahoma attorney general side with death row inmate Richard Glossip's request to have his murder conviction overturned due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct. "There's a potential for an even split, which would ultimately mean that the lower court decision stands," Hoag-Fordjour said, "affirming or …

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Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct
54 years, 11 months ago

Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct

Slate  

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in Glossip v. Oklahoma, a death penalty case posing a question so bizarre that its very existence should serve as an indictment for capital punishment: Can courts force a state to execute a possibly innocent prisoner when the state itself doesn’t want to? At one point, the lead prosecutor, Connie Smothermon, asked Sneed …

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Supreme Court takes up appeal of Oklahoma death row inmate after state attorney general admitted mistakes
11 months ago

Supreme Court takes up appeal of Oklahoma death row inmate after state attorney general admitted mistakes

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the extraordinary appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate named Richard Glossip, a man who even the state attorney general said should not be executed. “We are grateful that the court is providing Richard Glossip the opportunity to argue that Oklahoma should not be permitted to kill him,” Glossip’s …

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US court halts execution of man who received ‘unfair’ trial
1 year, 7 months ago

US court halts execution of man who received ‘unfair’ trial

Al Jazeera  

The 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 …

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Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma
1 year, 7 months ago

Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday 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 Glossip’s life should be spared. “When police came to talk to Glossip about Van Treese’s whereabouts, he directed him away from the room he knew Van Treese was in,” Prater said …

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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Richard Glossip’s Execution In Oklahoma
1 year, 7 months ago

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Richard Glossip’s Execution In Oklahoma

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip after the state’s attorney general agreed Glossip’s life should be spared. Glossip had been scheduled to be put to death on May 18 despite statements by new Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond that Glossip did not receive a fair trial. An …

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Oklahoma AG files motion seeking to stop Glossip execution
1 year, 7 months ago

Oklahoma AG files motion seeking to stop Glossip execution

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to grant death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution, saying there were enough problems with Glossip’s conviction that he deserves a new trial. In an unusual move for a prosecutor, Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed his motion agreeing with defense attorneys that Glossip deserves …

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Editorial: Bureaucracy of death may snag condemned Oklahoma man, guilty or not
1 year, 7 months ago

Editorial: Bureaucracy of death may snag condemned Oklahoma man, guilty or not

LA Times  

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 2 to 2 to grant clemency to Richard Glossip on April 26. Several prominent Oklahoma Republican lawmakers have likewise argued for Glossip, horrified that their state is close to putting to death a man who may be innocent. Opinion Editorial: Death penalty’s retreat is excruciatingly slow Florida jurors and Oregon’s governor were unlikely …

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Oklahoma board denies clemency for death row inmate Glossip
1 year, 7 months ago

Oklahoma board denies clemency for death row inmate Glossip

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s state parole board voted Wednesday not to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Glossip, even though the state attorney general said he doesn’t think the condemned man whose case has drawn celebrity interest received a fair trial. Glossip, who was convicted of paying an accomplice, Justin Sneed, to kill Van Treese, told the board Wednesday …

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Oklahoma court denies new hearing for death row inmate
2 years, 1 month ago

Oklahoma court denies new hearing for death row inmate

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday denied death row inmate Richard Glossip’s request for a new evidentiary hearing that his attorneys suggest would prove his innocence in the 1997 beating death of Glossip’s boss at an Oklahoma City motel. The court also cast doubt on Glossip’s theory that his co-defendant, Justin Sneed, acted alone or with his …

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Oklahoma inmate gets temporary reprieve from execution
2 years, 1 month ago

Oklahoma inmate gets temporary reprieve from execution

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Richard Glossip, pushing his scheduled execution back until February 2023 so that an appeals court has more time to consider his claim of innocence. Two different juries found Glossip guilty of murder for hire.” Van Treese’s brother, Ken Van Treese, did not immediately return a …

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The Vindication of Stephen Breyer
2 years, 5 months ago

The Vindication of Stephen Breyer

Slate  

On June 30, Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the Supreme Court after nearly 28 years. “Innocent People Have Been Executed” One of Breyer’s main objections to the death penalty stemmed from the fact that new evidence had shown states had executed innocent people, rendering the death penalty unreliable. In part three of his dissent, Breyer spelled out how the lengthy …

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Lawmaker: Report shows Oklahoma death row inmate’s innocence
2 years, 6 months ago

Lawmaker: Report shows Oklahoma death row inmate’s innocence

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A Republican Oklahoma state representative who is a self-described death-penalty supporter on Wednesday said a report by a Houston law firm into the conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip proves Glossip’s innocence. The firm reported lost or destroyed evidence, and a detective in the case who was biased against Glossip and improperly asked leading questions to …

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Texas law firm agrees to review Oklahoma death penalty case
2 years, 10 months ago

Texas law firm agrees to review Oklahoma death penalty case

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A partner with a Texas law firm said Tuesday at least 20 attorneys are prepared to review the case of an Oklahoma death row inmate who has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of a motel owner in Oklahoma City. Stan Perry, an attorney with Houston-based ReedSmith, said his firm already has begun reviewing the …

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