The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial,
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, staving off his execution. Convicted for the 1997 killing of his former boss,
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three "last meals" has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction.
The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial Tuesday for Richard Glossip, scrapping his conviction and death sentence in an Oklahoma murder nearly three decades old.
The Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction because a key witness lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him.
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the conviction was unsound.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip must receive a new trial in the 1997 killing of a motel owner in Oklahoma City.
The US Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man on death row. The court ruled 5-3 in favour of Glossip, reversing an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling. The move comes after the state's Republican attorney general joined Glossip in calling for a new trial.
The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors wrongly withheld evidence