Entries tagged with “Richard Glossip”

Jun 23, 2021

As More Evidence of Innocence Emerges, 34 Oklahoma Legislators Call on Governor for Investigation of Death-Row Prisoner Richard Glossip’s Conviction

Following addi­tion­al rev­e­la­tions that Richard Glossip (pic­tured) may be inno­cent of the mur­der that sent him to Oklahoma’s death row in 1998, a bipar­ti­san group of 34 state leg­is­la­tors are call­ing upon Gov…

Feb 14, 2022

Autopsy Shows John Grant Suffered Pulmonary Edema and Intramuscular Hemorrhage and Aspirated Vomit During Oklahoma Execution

Autopsy results for an Oklahoma death-row pris­on­er whose exe­cu­tion state offi­cials claimed ​“was car­ried out … with­out com­pli­ca­tion” have con­firmed eye­wit­ness reports that John Grant like­ly suf­fered a tor­tur­ous de…

Apr 26, 2023

Case Update: Oklahoma Board Denies Clemency for Richard Glossip

Apr 21, 2023

Case Update: Oklahoma Court Upholds Richard Glossip’s Conviction

May 05, 2023

CASE UPDATE: U.S. Supreme Court Stays Glossip Execution

The first of the two peti­tions for a writ of cer­tio­rari from Mr. Glossip claims that the state of Oklahoma was oblig­at­ed to turn over infor­ma­tion relat­ed to the co-defendant’s (Justin Sneed) desire to recant tes­ti­mo­ny impli­cat­ing Mr. Glossip and h…

Jul 19, 2022

Commentary: Richard Glossip’s Case Exemplifies the Systemic Flaws that Justice Stephen Breyer Warned About

As Richard Glossip faces an exe­cu­tion date for the fourth time, his case is a per­fect exam­ple of the prob­lems in the death-penal­ty sys­tem that then-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (pic­tured) iden­ti­fied in his…

May 07, 2020

Executions Remain On Hold as Federal Litigation on Oklahoma’s ​‘Risky and Incomplete’ Lethal-Injection Protocol Moves Forward

Oklahoma will not seek to car­ry out any exe­cu­tions while lit­i­ga­tion con­tin­ues in fed­er­al court on the state’s lethal-injec­tion pro­to­col, a U.S. fed­er­al dis­trict court judge has announced​.At a May 5, 2020 hear­ing on the Okla…

Oct 29, 2021

Eyewitnesses Report John Grant Experienced Repeated ​‘Full-Body Convulsions’ and Vomited During Execution; Oklahoma Says Execution was Carried Out ​‘Without Complication’

Oklahoma’s lega­cy of botched exe­cu­tions has con­tin­ued to grow, as media wit­ness­es to the October 28, 2021 exe­cu­tion of John Grant (pic­tured) report­ed that Grant suf­fered repeat­ed con­vul­sions and vom­it­ed over a nea…

Jul 25, 2022

Former Oklahoma Governor and His Death Penalty Review Commission Co-Chair Call for Execution Halt

Former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (pic­tured) and for­mer U.S. Magistrate Judge Andy Lester, who co-chaired the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission in 2017, have called on st…

Jun 08, 2023

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Expresses Continued Frustration with the Fair Administration of the Death Penalty

In a recent inter­view with The Marshall Project, for­mer United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer dis­cussed his twen­ty-eight years of expe­ri­ence on the Court and the evo­lu­tion of his view on the death penal­ty. He explai…

May 25, 2023

Former U.S. Attorneys, Prominent Business Leaders, Write Op-Eds in Support of Richard Glossip

Former fed­er­al Oklahoma pros­e­cu­tors Patrick Ryan and Daniel Webber co-authored an edi­to­r­i­al in The Oklahoman on May 17, 2023 express­ing seri­ous con­cerns about Richard Glossip’s con­vic­tion and death sen­tence. The writ­ers not­ed tha…

Aug 15, 2018

Fox Commentator: Oklahoma ​“Frontier Justice” Has Produced ​“Wretched Record” of Wrongful Capital Convictions

Calling Oklahoma ​“the noto­ri­ous home of ​‘Hang ​’Em High’ exe­cu­tions,” con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor and Fox News con­trib­u­tor Michelle Malkin (pic­tured) has urged the state to adopt sytemic reforms to address its ​“wretch…

Sep 22, 2022

Lawyers for Mentally Ill Oklahoma Death-Row Prisoner Seek Clemency, Competency Trial

Lawyers for Oklahoma death-row pris­on­er Benjamin Cole have filed a peti­tion with the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole ask­ing the Board to rec­om­mend to Governor Kevin Stitt that Cole’s sentenc…

Sep 30, 2020

NEW VOICES: Oklahoma Legislator Says Get the Death Penalty Right or Don’t Do It

A self-described tough-on-crime Oklahoma state rep­re­sen­ta­tive says has seri­ous doubts as to the reli­a­bil­i­ty of the Sooner State’s death penal­ty. ​“As tax­pay­ers and vot­ers,” Republican State Representative Kevin McDu…

Jan 27, 2023

Oklahoma Attorney General Appoints Special Counsel to Conduct ​‘Thorough Review’ of Richard Glossip’s Case

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has appoint­ed a spe­cial coun­sel to con­duct a ​‘thor­ough review’ of the case of death-row pris­on­er Richard Glossip, who has faced nine exe­cu­tion dates despite strong evide…

Jul 10, 2023

Oklahoma Attorney General Files SCOTUS Brief in Support of Richard Glossip

On July 5, 2023, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (pic­tured) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in sup­port of death row pris­on­er Richard Glossip’s peti­tion for a writ of cer­tio­rari. The Innocence Project and six legal scholar…

Apr 07, 2023

Oklahoma Attorney General Moves to Vacate the Murder Conviction of Richard Glossip

On April 6, 2023, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate Richard Glossip’s con­vic­tion and death sen­tence and to remand the case to the District Court for fur­ther pro­ceed­ings. He cit­ed the …

Jun 13, 2022

Oklahoma Attorney General Requests 25 Execution Dates Despite Independent Investigation and Claims of Innocence, Serious Mental Illness, and Brain Damage

Oklahoma state pros­e­cu­tors are push­ing to sched­ule 25 exe­cu­tions over approx­i­mate­ly two years, after a fed­er­al judge denied death-row pris­on­ers’ chal­lenge to the state’s con­tro­ver­sial lethal-injec­tion pro­to­col. On June 10,…

Jan 12, 2023

Oklahoma Carries Out First of 11 Executions Scheduled for 2023

Oklahoma has car­ried out the first of eleven exe­cu­tions sched­uled for 2023, admin­is­ter­ing a lethal injec­tion to death-row pris­on­er Scott Eizember on January 12. The exe­cu­tion was a con­tin­u­a­tion of a 

Feb 18, 2022

Oklahoma County Becomes Nation’s Third Most Prolific County Executioner as State Puts Intellectually Impaired Teen Offender to Death

When Oklahoma exe­cut­ed Gilbert Postelle on February 17, 2022, it came with a dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion. The intel­lec­tu­al­ly impaired man who was 18 years old at the time of his offense became the 44^th person …

Jan 24, 2023

Oklahoma Court Grants Attorney General’s Motion to Slow State’s Execution Spree

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) has reset the state’s exe­cu­tion sched­ule, slow­ing down the pace at which the 25-per­son exe­cu­tion spree it autho­rized in July 2022 would move for­ward. The order, issued January…

Aug 17, 2022

Oklahoma Governor Delays Richard Glossip’s Execution to Allow Litigation of Innocence Claims

Oklahoma Governor J. Kevin Stitt has issued a 60-day stay of exe­cu­tion to death-row pris­on­er Richard Glossip. The order, issued August 16, 2022, delays Glossip’s September 22 exe­cu­tion to pro­vide the Oklah…

May 20, 2016

Oklahoma Grand Jury Issues Report Detailing ​“Blatant Violations” of the State’s Execution Protocol

Following sev­en months of inves­ti­ga­tion into the caus­es of Oklahoma’s botched exe­cu­tion of Charles Warner using an unau­tho­rized exe­cu­tion drug and its near‑e…

Feb 10, 2022

Oklahoma is Paying Execution Doctor $15,000 Plus Training Fees for Each Execution

Oklahoma is pay­ing $15,000 per exe­cu­tion, plus $1,000 for each day of train­ing, to an unnamed doc­tor to par­tic­i­pate in the process of putting state pris­on­ers to death. Under the agree­ment, the doc­tor stood to receive an estimated …

Apr 14, 2016

Oklahoma Knew It Had Used Unauthorized Drug Months Before It Aborted Richard Glossip’s Execution

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections knew it had used an unau­tho­rized drug in the exe­cu­tion of Charles Warner near­ly six months before it almost repeat­ed t…

Sep 28, 2022

Oklahoma Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of Prosecutor for Deliberately Withholding Evidence of Innocence in Richard Glossip Retrial

An Oklahoma state rep­re­sen­ta­tive has called for an inves­ti­ga­tion into the prac­tices of the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office fol­low­ing addi­tion­al rev­e­la­tions that coun­ty pros­e­cu­tors delib­er­ate­ly withheld…

Jun 17, 2022

Oklahoma Legislature Releases Independent Review of Richard Glossip Case

Oklahoma leg­is­la­tors announced that an inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion revealed strong evi­dence of Richard Glossip’s inno­cence. Glossip, who came with­in hours of exe­cu­tion in 2015, is the sec­ond pris­on­er the Oklahoma At…

Mar 02, 2020

Oklahoma Prisoners Challenge New Execution Protocol in Federal Court

Less than two weeks after Oklahoma offi­cials announced that the state would return to the same con­tro­ver­sial three-drug exe­cu­tion pro­to­col impli­cat­ed in a series of botched exe­cu­tions in 2014 and 2015, the state’s death-row prison…

Nov 21, 2022

Oklahoma Pushes Back Clemency Hearings, Changing Execution Timelines

Oklahoma has pushed back the clemen­cy hear­ings of two men on death row, John Hanson and Richard Glossip (pic­tured). Glossip’s exe­cu­tion date was also moved back, and Hanson’s exe­cu­tion date will like­ly have to be changed. Both men were sched­uled t…

Nov 04, 2022

Richard Glossip Execution Halted for a Seventh Time

Oklahoma has once again put off the exe­cu­tion of Richard Glossip, the sev­enth time his pend­ing exe­cu­tion has been stayed or reprieved. On November 2, 2022, Governor Kevin Stitt issued a