The Supreme Court has halted the execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose capital conviction the Oklahoma attorney general no longer supports
The latest round of litigation was brought to the Supreme Court by Glossip, with the support of the Oklahoma Attorney’s General office, who asked for his May 18 execution to be set aside. The emergency hold on his execution will stay in place while the justices consider his request that they formally take up his case. There were no noted dissents from Friday’s order. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not participate in Friday’s ruling.
In their filings with the US Supreme Court, Glossip’s attorneys argued that – in addition to the obviously irreparable harm he would suffer if the execution moves forward – Oklahoma “will also suffer harm from its Department of Corrections executing a person whom the State has concluded should never have been convicted of murder, let alone sentenced to die, in the first place.
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