In an unprecedented move, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond will recommend clemency for Richard Glossip, who is set to be executed on May 18 on a capital murder charge
In a letter to the state’s Pardon and Parole Board – which will meet Wednesday – Drummond wrote, “For there to be public faith in our criminal justice system, it is incumbent on me as the State’s chief law enforcement officer to not ignore evidence and facts.” The state’s five-member Pardon and Parole Board will decide the fate of Glossip, who has spent more than 24 years on death row and had three reprieves or stays of execution.
” Among the evidence included in the special counsel report was paperwork showing Sneed wanted to recant his testimony, writing to his attorney: “There are a lot of things right now that are eating at me. Somethings I need to clean up.” The report concluded Glossip’s murder conviction should be vacated and that he be granted a new trial.
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Oklahoma attorney general to recommend clemency for GlossipOklahoma's new Attorney General Gentner Drummond is planning to ask the state's Pardon and Parole Board to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Glossip.
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