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In exchange for avoiding the death penalty, Sneed confessed and told police that Glossip had instructed him to commit the murder. [15] Glossip insisted on his actual innocence and refused to accept a plea bargain. [15] In July 1998, an Oklahoma jury convicted Glossip of the murder and sentenced him to death. [15]
The charge was later upgraded to first-degree murder, court records show. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in 1998, but that initial outcome was overturned on appeal due to ineffective ...
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.
The Supreme Court weighs whether inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant.
Drummond, a Republican, has said Glossip could face a new trial in the 1997 killing in Oklahoma City of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme. If Glossip were to be tried again, the death penalty would be off the table, Oklahoma City District Attorney Vicki Zemp Behenna has ...
Glossip’s lawyers have focused on concerns about key testimony in the case provided by Justin Sneed, who carried out the 1997 murder. Sneed testified that Glossip had hired him to kill motel ...
Glossip was due to die on 30 September 2015 - his third execution date that year. ... almost three years on from his brush with death. Richard Glossip's bride, Leigha Jurasik, is 33 years younger ...
Now, in another twist, Oklahoma's Republican attorney general has joined with Glossip in seeking to overturn his murder conviction and death sentence in a 1997 murder-for-hire scheme. This unlikely turn has put Glossip's case back at the Supreme Court, where the justices will hear arguments Wednesday.