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.
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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,
Barry Van Treese's family is "confident" Oklahoma's Richard Glossip will be found guilty after the Supreme Court tossed his conviction and ordered a new trial.
The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.
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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.
The Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction because a key witness lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him.
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial,
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip's conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire plot and granted him a new trial, concluding on Tuesday that prosecutors violated their constitutional duty to correct false testimony by their star witness.
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
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