The Supreme Court granted a rare stay of execution in the case of Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma death row inmate who the state's attorney general now says may be innocent.
This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021.The Supreme Court on Friday granted a rare stay of execution in the case of Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma death row inmate who the state's attorney general now says may be innocent.One of the nation's best known death row inmates, Glossip has adamantly maintained his innocence after being convicted in a 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his boss.
"Mr. Glossip should not have been convicted of murder, a point the State now concedes. His case has generated conflict and controversy, including at this Court. But he comes to this Court as an individual who, whatever his shortcomings and mistakes, has done nothing to justify his execution," his attorneys wrote in court filing.
Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who appeared before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to advocate for Glossip's clemency, also wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court that Glossip shouldn't be executed. "In light of new factual developments unearthed in an independent investigation and raised on post-conviction review, the State of Oklahoma recently made the difficult decision to confess error and support vacating the conviction of Richard Glossip," the state attorney general said in a filing.
"Absent this Court's intervention, an execution will move forward under circumstances where the Attorney General has already confessed error -- a result that would be unthinkable," Drummond continued.
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