All I can say is that this guy is damn lucky he's white, because if he was a person of color, they'd be begging the Supreme Court to let them execute him. Painfully and slowly if possible.

Deep down in the vox article, it says Glossip was not present for the murder. I live in Oklahoma and been following the story for awhile now. It's one of those cases where they arrested the murderer, but that wasn't enough for them. So they made a deal with the murderer to testify against Glossip like he's a criminal mastermind. The murderer was untrustworthy, then dies in prison, and that testimony is the only solid evidence they have against Glossip. I feel so bad for Glossip.

Our criminal justice is run by criminals y'all.

Oklahoma’s highest criminal court denied the request to toss out Glossip’s execution, claiming a crucial piece of new evidence undermining his conviction “does not create a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.” The state parole board split 2-2 on whether to grant relief to Glossip, with one member recused because his wife helped prosecute Glossip.

Meanwhile, while Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) twice postponed Glossip’s execution, he’s more recently signaled that he intends to defer to the courts’ determination of whether this man should be executed.

Remember folks, the cruelty is the point

Well luckily the only thing required to not do that is.... Not do that.

"oh please don't make me kill this man like the law said I have to!"

If only there were something preventing all these people from dragging him into the execution room, strapping him in, and flipping the proverbial switch... Sadly, people have no capability of independent thought or actions and as we all know, "I was just following orders" is a famously solid defense.

That’s most likely because the Court’s Republican-appointed majority’s death penalty decisions frequently emphasize the need for finality in court proceedings, and they generally reject the proposition that a death row inmate should be freed because they are innocent.

I don't understand how a legal system can continue after a supreme court takes this position without the whole thing being considered a joke or sham.

What is the purpose of a justice system willing to execute innocents?

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!

It's notable that the state itself could just make this go away but the assholes who have this power refuse to. Notable also that the SCOTUS holds that innocence is not a reason to not be executed, it only matters that the procedures were followed properly.

This is a choice to be cruel.

Conservatism is a plague of death.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

Instead, Glossip’s case primarily turns on a recently discovered piece of evidence which reveals that Sneed was treated for a serious mental illness that may have undermined his credibility as a witness.

As Drummond recently told the Supreme Court, Sneed’s “serious psychiatric condition that combined with his known methamphetamine use would have had an impact on his credibility and memory recall in addition to causing him to become potentially violent or suffer from paranoia.”

Given the comprehensive failures laid out in the two state-commissioned investigations into Glossip’s conviction, it’s a bit odd that the Supreme Court’s hearing is likely to focus on a single statement where Sneed briefly revealed that he’d been treated by a doctor whose name he didn’t even get right.

Prosecutors in Jones’s case claimed that he fatally beat his girlfriend’s daughter, inflicting injuries that supposedly killed her 12 hours later.

But medical examiners determined that the girl died from injuries that would have killed her much more slowly, and that they “could not possibly have been inflicted on the day prior to her death.”

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