U.S. Supreme Court rules Oklahoma death row inmate is entitled to new trial

Richard Glossip was convicted of murdering his boss more than twenty years ago, and has been on death row in Oklahoma ever since. Glossip has always maintained his innocence. After a years-long campaign to save his life that included Republican lawmakers and the state’s attorney general, the U.S. Supreme Court granted him a new trial. The ruling said “the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation” to Glossip by failing to correct false testimony and destroying key evidence. NBC Ne

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