Supreme Court to Weigh Death Sentence Oklahoma Says Was Wrong

Oklahoma and death row inmate Richard Glossip agree that his murder conviction and capital sentence should be undone. The US Supreme Court may rule that the state must kill him anyway.

Glossip was convicted in the 1997 murder-for-hire of his boss, Barry Van Treese. Since then, the state, through its Republican attorney general, issued what’s known as a “confession of error.”

Citing multiple constitutional flaws, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in 2023 that he “cannot stand behind the murder conviction and death sentence.”

The state’s highest criminal court rejected that confession though, along with Glossip’s request for a new ...