The case against Richard Glossip fell apart. Even the state’s Republican attorney general says he should not be executed. The Supreme Court may not care.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Glossip v. Oklahoma, a long-simmering death penalty case where the state’s Republican attorney general is urging the justices not to make his state kill a man after the prosecution’s case completely fell apart.

Last May, the Court temporarily blocked Richard Glossip’s execution, after Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond informed the Court that “the State of Oklahoma recently made the difficult decision to confess error and support vacating the conviction of Richard Glossip.”

Among other things, a committee of state lawmakers commissioned a law firm to investigate whether Glossip, who was convicted for allegedly hiring a coworker to kill his boss in 1997, received a fair trial. The firm released a 343-page report laying out many errors in the process that ended in Glossip being sentenced to die:

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 months ago

    hhahhaha this court? prolly lickin their chops at getting to kill more humans.

    now if he was a fetus, thats a whole 'nother story… we need them votes!

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        9 months ago

        It’s just “another” but some regions of the United States either intentionally mispronunce the word, because of an accent, or culturally learned that way from others.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah im part of that culture and didn’t realize I was doing that until I was an adult.