![]() Kevin McDugle, a Republican, told CNN he will ask the governor to put a 60-day stay in place. Stitt, who previously issued two stays of execution for Glossip, signaled Friday he would not issue another stay, adding “unless the courts act or there’s new evidence brought before the courts, we’re going to follow the law.” “It would be a travesty for Oklahoma to move forward with the execution of an innocent man.” Glossip is diverse, widespread, and growing, including at least 45 death penalty supporting Republicans in the Legislature who also reached the conclusion that there is too much doubt to execute Mr. Kevin Stitt to grant Glossip a reprieve before his execution. In a statement following Wednesday’s vote, Knight called on Republican Gov. ![]() “He’s down but not out,” Knight said, adding that he thought the hearing went well and the parole board’s ruling was shocking. Glossip’s attorney Don Knight told CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” his client feels hurt about the decision but remains hopeful. “I’m deeply sorry that in my fear and confusion, I caused anyone any further harm.” Van Treese’s death, I made mistakes in how I responded,” Glossip said. ![]() Glossip felt “terrible” about what the victim’s family had endured, he said, but he “absolutely did not cause Justin Sneed to commit any crime against Mr. Glossip has insisted he was not involved in Van Treese’s killing, and he reiterated that claim again Wednesday. Sneed received a life in prison sentence in exchange for his testimony as the key witness. ![]() But in 1998, prosecutors told jurors Sneed killed Van Treese in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Glossip. Oklahoma Department of Correctionsĭeath row inmate Richard Glossip is denied another bid to vacate murder conviction, execution set for May 18Īnother employee, then-19-year-old Justin Sneed, admitted to killing Van Treese with a baseball bat at the Oklahoma City motel. Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate Richard Glossip on January 19, 2021. After more than 24 years on death row and three reprieves or stays of execution, Glossip is now facing his ninth execution date on May 18, as the state seeks to carry out a series of more than two dozen executions over just a few years. Glossip, a 60-year-old former motel manager, was convicted of murder for ordering the killing of his boss Barry Van Treese, whose family Wednesday expressed strong opposition to clemency. The state’s attorney general filed a response Monday supporting the stay, writing to the Supreme Court that the execution will otherwise move forward “under circumstances where the Attorney General has already confessed error – a result that would be unthinkable.” The board voted 2-2, resulting in a denial of Glossip’s clemency request, which had the support of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who in an unprecedented move attended Wednesday’s parole board meeting to advocate for clemency.Ī fifth member of the board recused from the vote, which followed a nearly three-hour long hearing in which the board heard from Drummond, independent investigators, Glossip’s attorneys and the inmate himself, who in his plea for mercy told the board, “I’m not a murderer, and I don’t deserve to die for this.”Īttorneys for Glossip later filed for an application for a stay of execution with the US Supreme Court. Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday denied clemency in the case of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate who has long insisted he is innocent of the 1997 murder for which he’s scheduled to be executed this month.
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