Richard Glossip: Demise row inmate of 25 years might dodge execution for fourth time after AG intervenes

The lawyer basic of Oklahoma, has filed a movement to cease the execution of loss of life row inmate, Richard Glossip.

In an uncommon transfer, Gentner Drummond stated that whereas he doesn’t consider Glossip is harmless, he stated the trial he obtained was “unfair and unreliable”.

If the Supreme Court grants a keep of execution – which places a pause on all authorized proceedings – Glossip, 60, can have narrowly prevented loss of life 4 occasions in complete.

He is scheduled to be executed on 18 May for ordering the 1997 killing of Barry Van Treese, the proprietor of a motel in Oklahoma City the place Glossip labored.

The motel’s handyman, Justin Sneed, admitted robbing Van Treese and beating him to loss of life with a baseball bat, however claimed he did so solely after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000 (£8,000) to do it.

Glossip has all the time maintained his innocence.

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Mr Dummond has lengthy supported Glossip’s efforts to get his conviction overturned and a brand new trial ordered.

Last month he claimed that Sneed, who was sentenced to life in jail, lied to the jury about Glossip’s psychological well being and drug use.

The movement to the Supreme Court, comes per week after the state’s parole board rejected his request for mercy.

Glossip has had executions called off in the past. In 2015, his execution was halted when jail officers realised that they had obtained the improper deadly drug.

After the mix-up, executions had been halted in Oklahoma for nearly seven years.

Listen Glossip speaking to Sky News in 2019

Again in 2019, three-and-a-half hours earlier than he was resulting from die, there was a stay of execution.

In 2022, after escaping execution for a 3rd time, Glossip married anti-death penalty advocate and paralegal, Lea Rodger.

Typically, stays of execution final for round 30 days.