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Richard Eugene Glossip (born February 9, 1963) is an American prisoner currently on death row [2] at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. [3]
Shortly before dawn on January 7, 1997, Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, the owner of the Best Budget Inn motel in Oklahoma City.In order to avoid the death penalty, Sneed agreed to testify against Richard Glossip—the motel's manager—and implicate him in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
On September 30, 2015, in investigations surrounding the planned execution of Richard Glossip, it became apparent that potassium acetate may have been used to execute Warner. [8] After his execution, the drug vials and syringes used in Warner's execution were submitted to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. [ 8 ]
Glossip v. Gross , 576 U.S. 863 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held, 5–4, that lethal injections using midazolam to kill prisoners convicted of capital crimes do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
Additionally, the execution dates of six other death row inmates — Jemaine Cannon, Phillip Dean Hancock, James Ryder, Michael Dewayne Smith, Wade Lay, and Richard Glossip — were also postponed between 2023 and 2024. [51]
Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip will finally get the chance to argue for a new trial before the US Supreme Court after insisting for almost three decades he is innocent of the murder for ...
[12] [13] She resigned just before Richard Smothermon did in August 2023 after McDugle criticized the board and Smothermon specifically for not giving Richard Glossip five full board votes. [14] Smothermon gave no direct reason for why he resigned, but the Pardon and Parole Board is "currently the target of a lawsuit brought by death-row inmate ...
The defendant, Richard Glossip, is 61 years old. He has lived through nine execution dates and eaten his “last meal” three times. The waiting time alone may be deemed “cruel and unusual ...