Conservative Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clarence has accused the Supreme Court majority of stretching the law "at every turn" to save a man from the death penalty. On February 25, the Supreme Court decided 5-3 to grant a new trial to Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose execution has been delayed nine times.
The Supreme Court gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance in the high-profile 1997 murder case. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
The U.S. Supreme Court avoided deadlock with a fractured 5-3 decision to give Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose execution has been rescheduled nine times, a new trial, finding that the prosecution violated its legal obligations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, and Justice Samuel Alito joined ... Thomas noted in his dissenting opinion that Glossip was twice sentenced to death by Oklahoma juries and failed to persuade either body “with authority” to eliminate his death ...
In 5-3 decision, the justices set aside Richard Glossip's conviction, saying it may have been based on false testimony.
The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”
Prosecutors in Oklahoma twice convinced separate juries ... testimony about a witness’s medical condition," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a dissenting opinion. "And, for the remedy, it ...
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate who was joined in his bid to have his conviction thrown out by the state's Republican attorney general.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. Thomas wrote that the court didn’t have the authority to review the decision by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. And even if it did ...