The Supreme Court has blocked the execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate who claims he is innocent. The state's attorney general has agreed that the underlying conviction was unsound.
Richard Glossip at the state penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., in 2014. The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution, allowing his court challenge to continue.May 5, 2023, 6:29 PM UTCWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate who claims he is innocent in an unusual case in which the state's attorney general agreed that the underlying conviction was unsound.
The decision means that Glossip’s execution, scheduled for May 18, will no longer go ahead while his court challenge continues. Glossip's lawyers had argued that his conviction should be thrown out based on concerns about key testimony in the case provided by Justin Sneed, who carried out the 1997 murder. Sneed testified that Glossip had hired him to kill motel owner Barry Van Treese.
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