The Supreme Court halted the execution of Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip on Friday after the state’s lawyer basic informed the high court he didn’t get a reasonable trial.
Glossip was set to be carriedout at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on May 18 for the 1997 murder-for-hire plot of his manager, Barry Alan Van Treese. The execution will be put on hold while the Supreme Court evaluates the case.
New Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, informed justices that Glossip was foundedguilty on incorrect testament, and asked for the remain. He stated, “the public interest is plainly served by not performing a male after the state has concluded that the conviction cannot be continual.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on April 20 declined to grant him a stay and tossed out his mostcurrent obstacle to his conviction.
Glossip, 60, has constantly preserved his innocence.
The lawyer basic had asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to set aside the conviction and sendout the case back to the Oklahoma County Courthouse. Drummond has stated he doesn’t think Glossip is innocent.
Drummond grumbled the secret witness, admitted killer Justin Sneed, offered “false statement” to the jury at a 2004 retrial concerning his psychiatric treatment.
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