Justices Question Oklahoma Ruling in Richard Glossip Death Row Case

U.S. Supreme Court justices raised concerns on Wednesday about a judicial decision that would let Richard Glossip’s execution move forward as they wrestled with the Oklahoma death row inmate’s appeal of his conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire.

The justices during arguments in the case probed whether an Oklahoma court properly weighed newly revealed information that Glossip’s lawyers said would have aided his defense and which the state’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, called wrongly withheld by prosecutors.

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