1998, re-tried and re-convicted 2004: first-degree murder[1]
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Victims
Barry Van Treese
Imprisoned at
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Richard Eugene Glossip (born February 9, 1963) is an American prisoner currently on death row[2] at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese.[3] The man who murdered Van Treese, Justin Sneed (aged 19 when he committed the crime), had a "meth habit" and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Glossip. Sneed received a life sentence without parole. Glossip's case has attracted international attention due to the unusual nature of his conviction, namely that there was little or no corroborating evidence,[4][5][6][7] with the first case against him described as "extremely weak" by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.[8]
Glossip is notable for his role as named plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case Glossip v. Gross, which ruled that executions carried out by a three-drug protocol of midazolam, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[9]
In September[10] and October 2015,[11] Glossip was granted three successive stays of execution due to questions about Oklahoma's lethal injection drugs after Oklahoma Department of Corrections officials used potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride to execute Charles Frederick Warner on January 15, 2015, contrary to protocol.[12][13] Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt ordered a multicounty grand jury investigation of the execution drug mix-up.[14]
^ ab"Oklahoma Department of Corrections: Name Richard E Glossip ODOC# 267303". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
^Oklahoma Department of Corrections. "Inmates Sentenced to Death". Retrieved June 9, 2022. 267303 - Glossip, Richard E.
^"Ex-Motel Manager Found Guilty in Murder". NewsOK.com. 11 June 1998. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
^"Oklahoma court denies stay of execution in Richard Glossip case". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
^"Appeals court grants Richard Glossip two week stay hours before execution". KFOR.com. 16 September 2015.
^Crimesider Staff (September 16, 2015). "Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip set to die for 1997 killing". Crimesider. CBS News. Retrieved September 16, 2015. Richard Eugene Glossip's attorneys asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late Tuesday to stop his lethal injection, saying they uncovered new details in the case, including a signed affidavit from an inmate who served time with Justin Sneed, who also was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.
^Connor, Tracy (2015). "Oklahoma's Richard Glossip is Nun's 7th 'Dead Man Walking'". Storyline > Lethal Injection. NBC News. Retrieved September 15, 2015. Prejean, who runs the Ministry Against the Death Penalty out of Louisiana, traveled to Oklahoma to prepare for what was looking more inevitable as the hours passed, especially after Gov. Mary Fallin refused to delay his execution.
^Cite error: The named reference appeals-court was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Glossip v. Gross". SCOTUSblog. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
^Ford, Matt (30 September 2015). "Oklahoma Halts Execution of Richard Glossip". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
^Walker, Lauren (October 2015). "Oklahoma Attorney General Requests Three Indefinite Stays of Execution". Newsweek. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
^"Wrong drug used for January execution, state records show". NewsOK.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
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