On June 9, 2025, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that his office will retry death row pris­on­er Richard Glossip but will not seek the death penal­ty. AG Drummond’s deci­sion to retry Mr. Glossip fol­lows the February 2025 United States Supreme Court rul­ing in Glossip v. Oklahoma, in which the high court threw out Mr. Glossip’s 2004 con­vic­tion and ordered a new tri­al because pros­e­cu­tors allowed a key wit­ness to lie in court and with­held cru­cial infor­ma­tion about the same wit­ness. Mr. Glossip had pre­vi­ous­ly had nine exe­cu­tion war­rants and came with­in an hour of being exe­cut­ed. AG Drummond had sup­port­ed Mr. Glossip’s request for a new tri­al at the Supreme Court and admit­ted that Mr. Glossip’s due process rights had been vio­lat­ed, but he has stead­fast­ly refused to sup­port Mr. Glossip’s innocence claims.

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