Capital Case Round Up

(ORDER LIST: 598 U.S.) FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 22A941 GLOSSIP, RICHARD E. V. OKLAHOMA The appli­ca­tion for stay of exe­cu­tion of sen­tence of death pre­sent­ed to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is grant­ed pend­ing the dis­po­si­tion of the peti­tions for writs of cer­tio­rari, Nos. 22 – 6500 and 22 – 7466. Should both peti­tions for writs of cer­tio­rari be denied, this stay shall ter­mi­nate auto­mat­i­cal­ly. In the event either peti­tion for a writ…

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On April 26, the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to rec­om­mend clemen­cy for death-row pris­on­er Richard Glossip (pic­tured), who is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on May 18, 2023. The board’s 2 – 2 vote con­sti­tut­ed a denial of clemen­cy since the gov­er­nor can­not grant clemen­cy with­out the board’s…

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The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled against Richard Glossip (pic­tured) on April 20, 2023, despite a motion from the state’s Attorney General ask­ing the court to vacate Glossip’s con­vic­tion and remand the case to a low­er court. Glossip is sched­uled for exe­cu­tion on May 18 but has con­sis­tent­ly main­tained his inno­cence. In a state­ment react­ing to the rul­ing, Glossip’s attor­ney, Don Knight, said,​“Since the State now agrees that the only wit­ness to allege that Mr.

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A fed­er­al dis­trict court has over­turned the death sen­tence of an Alabama death-row pris­on­er whose aban­don­ment by his state post-con­vic­­tion coun­sel led to a U.S. Supreme Court deci­sion on the right of access to fed­er­al habeas cor­pus review. On January 27, 2022, Judge Karon O. Bowdre of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama over­turned Cory Maples’ death sen­tence, hold­ing that his trial…

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On January 13, 2022, the Florida Supreme Court grant­ed new tri­als to two Florida death-row pris­on­ers. The court over­turned Joe Simpson​’s 2007 con­vic­tion and death sen­tence because of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct. It also over­turned Peter Avsenew​’s 2018 con­vic­tion and death sen­tence because of the improp­er pre­sen­ta­tion of remotely-recorded…

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