The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
Richard Glossip has spent 27 years behind bars, most of it on Oklahoma's death row, coming close enough to execution that he has had nine separate execution dates and been fed three “last meals.” On Tuesday,
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside ... Sneed’s trial testimony violated the Due Process Clause,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority. “Glossip is entitled to a new trial.”
The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial Tuesday for Richard Glossip, scrapping his conviction and death sentence in an Oklahoma murder nearly three decades old.
In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the conviction was unsound.
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Richard Glossip has spent ... and revealed his willingness to lie under oath,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for five of the justices. Sotomayor said additional prosecutorial ...
The Supreme Court has recently made a groundbreaking decision to grant Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, a new trial. The case turned on the
The US Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man on death row. The court ruled 5-3 in favour of Glossip, reversing an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling. The move comes after the state's Republican attorney general joined Glossip in calling for a new trial.
The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors wrongly withheld evidence