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Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip for noncapital murder after Supreme Court threw out conviction
- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that Richard Glossip will face a new trial for first-degree murder related to the killing of Barry Van Treese in 1997, but the state will not pursue the death penalty in the case.
- This ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court's February 2023 determination that prosecutorial misconduct, including the use of false testimony, resulted in Richard Glossip being denied a fair trial.
- Glossip was initially sentenced to death but was removed from death row in April 2023 after serving 27 years, while Justin Sneed, who confessed to the murder, serves life without parole.
- Drummond acknowledged that both he and the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that Mr. Glossip was not given a just trial, but emphasized that he has never declared Glossip to be innocent, and committed to providing a new trial grounded in reliable evidence and honest testimony.
- The retrial could result in a conviction with life imprisonment, reflecting Drummond's duty to seek justice under current standards while acknowledging the past prosecution's errors and the Van Treese family's suffering.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Will Not Seek Death Penalty Against Richard Glossip in Retrial | Death Penalty Information Center
On June 9, 2025, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that his office will retry death row prisoner Richard Glossip but will not seek the death penalty. AG Drummond’s decision to retry Mr. Glossip follows the February 2025 United States Supreme Court ruling in *Glossip v. Oklahoma*, in which the high Court threw out Mr. Glossip’s 2004 conviction and ordered a new trial because prosecutors allowed a key witness to lie…
Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip for noncapital murder after Supreme Court threw out conviction
Oklahoma’s top prosecutor said Monday that the state intends to retry Richard Glossip for murder but seek only a life sentence, after the Supreme Court threw out the death row inmate’s capital conviction. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) supported Glossip’s bid to overturn his conviction in a 1997 murder-for-hire plot, agreeing he received an…
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