Supreme Court Accepts Death Row Appeal of Oklahoma Inmate After State Admits Errors

‘Allowing a capital sentence to be carried out where the conviction was occasioned by the government’s own admitted failings would be nigh unfathomable.’
Supreme Court Accepts Death Row Appeal of Oklahoma Inmate After State Admits Errors
Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP
Matthew Vadum
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in the high-profile case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Eugene Glossip after the state admitted that it made mistakes in the case and announced its support for the appeal.

The decision to hear the case came on Jan. 22 after the court previously acted on May 5, 2023, to stay Mr. Glossip’s execution, pending the outcome of the petitions he filed.

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