Oklahoma dying row inmate Richard Glossip petitions for clemency as execution date nears

Lawyers for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma person on demise row accused of murdering his manager in 1997, on Friday submitted a clemency petition with the Oklahoma Board of Pardon and Parole.

Lawmakers and Glossip's legal professional are pushing for clemency following the 59-year-aged, who has spent 25 years in prison for his murder-for-employ the service of conviction and maintains his innocence to this working day, experienced his execution delayed a few periods. His upcoming dying date is scheduled for September 22. 

"The clock is ticking down for Richard Glossip", Glossip's legal professional, Don Knight, stated in a Friday assertion. "Over 40% of the legislature and a lot of wonderful Oklahomans are anxious that the Condition will be executing an innocent male.  It is not too late to help save him, and we hope this enchantment to the pardons board users for clemency will be read, forwarded to the Governor, and acted on."

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The petition states that Glossip "had no prior legal file and has been a product prisoner for above 25 yrs even though he has managed his innocence," and that the death row inmate is at the moment dealing with his fourth execution day although Justin Sneed, whom Glossip's lawyers allege is the "authentic killer…is serving a lifetime sentence for the exact crime."

Oklahoma Dying Row inmate Richard Glossip has put in 25 many years in prison for a criminal offense he suggests he did not dedicate. (G3 Box News Electronic)

Glossip was sentenced to death in the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. Prosecutors allege that Glossip killed Van Treese, the proprietor of a motel wherever Glossip worked as a manager, by convincing a then-19-year-previous servicing worker, Justin Sneed, to execute his killing.

Sneed is serving a existence sentence soon after pleading responsible to beating Van Treese to loss of life with a baseball bat in 1997 in a area at the Oklahoma City motel. Sneed testified that he killed Van Treese, but only just after Glossip, the motel supervisor, promised to pay back him $10,000 to commit the criminal offense.

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"His conviction is the product of an inexcusably negligent police investigation, coercive and unreliable interrogation techniques, intentional destruction by the Condition of critical physical evidence prior to the demo, prosecutors’ presentation of unvetted, unreliable evidence, and incompetent point out-provided protection lawyers, amongst other breakdowns of the justice process," the petition submitted Friday states.

A whole of 62 Oklahoma point out legislators, which include 46 Republicans who are mainly in favor of the dying penalty, requesting an evidentiary listening to for Glossip centered on a 340-webpage report from the Reed Smith regulation business alleging the murder-for-retain the services of conviction and demise sentence are unsubstantiated. 

Oklahoma Death Row inmate Richard Glossip is going through his fourth execution date on Sept. 22. (Oklahoma Section of Corrections by means of G3 Box News File)

Knight, Republican Oklahoma point out Rep. Kevin McDugle, other Oklahoma state legislators and advocates for Glossip claim that he was wrongly accused just after an investigator allegedly confident Sneed to incriminate Glossip in his testimony. Knight also alleges that prosecutors in the circumstance ruined or missing proof that could have seemingly transformed Glossip’s fate. 

"I can't find a person shred of evidence to stand up in court docket right now," McDugle beforehand explained to G3 Box News Digital. "If the jury experienced noticed how the investigators led Justin to … [point] the finger at Richard, he would not be on death row currently. I imply, it is an unbelievable scenario."

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The Reed Smith legislation firm’s report into Glossip’s situation concludes that the two times-convicted man’s "2004 trial can not be relied on to help a murder-for-retain the services of conviction. Nor can it give a foundation for the govt to consider the existence of Richard E. Glossip." 

The regulation organization also stated very last week that it has due to the fact found much more info that even more support its results in the Glossip situation, such as a letter from Sneed.

"Our group will carry on to look into Richard Glossip’s scenario and conviction, because new info has continued to grow to be available considering that we posted our first report," Reed Smith associate Stan Perry said in a Tuesday statement. "We anticipate this work will proceed until a ultimate disposition of Glossip’s situation."

The G3 Box News contributed to this report.