CASE PREVIEW
Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma must execute Richard Glossip

By Amy Howe
on Oct 5, 2024 at 12:18 pm


The Supreme Court put Richard Glossip's execution on hold in May and agreed to hear his case. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
Twice in the past decade the Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip. Now the state has joined Glossip to argue that newly uncovered evidence shows prosecutors violated his rights at trial. But even with the Oklahoma’s rare confession of error, both the state’s highest court for criminal cases and the state’s pardon and parole board turned down Glossip’s pleas for relief. On Oct. 9, two former U.S. solicitors general – Seth Waxman, representing Glossip, and Paul Clement, representing Oklahoma’s attorney general – will appear before the justices, seeking to persuade them to set aside Glossip’s conviction and death sentence and order a new trial.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond told the court that the state is not looking for an exoneration “by fiat (or at all)” but that “justice would not be served by moving forward with a capital sentence that the State can no longer defend.”

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Recommended Citation: Amy Howe, Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma must execute Richard Glossip, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 5, 2024, 12:18 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/supreme-court-to-decide-if-oklahoma-must-execute-richard-glossip/