RICHARD GLOSSIP

An undated handout photo of the revamped lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison supplied by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation October 25, 2012. The state hosts nearly a quarter of the nation's condemned prisoners but has executed none in the last six years. A federal judge halted all California executions in 2006, saying a three-drug lethal injection protocol risked causing inmates too much pain and suffering before death. California revised its protocol, but executions have not resumed. (CRIME LAW SOCIETY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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POLITICS
Oklahoma Is Urged To Keep Its Execution Ban Until System Is Fixed
By Kim Bellware
"I believe it’s very likely that, at some point, Oklahoma has executed an innocent person.”
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 photo, the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is pictured in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma plans to resume executions Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, after botching its last one and will use the same three-drug method as a Florida lethal injection scheduled for the same day. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
POLITICS
Grand Jury Investigation Reveals Details Of Oklahoma's Despicable Execution Program
By Kim Bellware
The state's attorney general called some corrections employees "careless" in how they carried out lethal injections.
A hospital-type gurney is used for execution by lethal injection at the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas, USA. Restraints rest on top of the gurney and an intravenous needle is visible at the observation window at left.
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POLITICS
2015 Was A Historic Year For The Death Penalty In America
By Kim Bellware
Fewer people were sentenced to death than at any time since the '70s.
This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Ernest Johnson. Johnson was convicted of killing three Columbia, Mo., convenience store workers with a claw hammer in 1994. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)
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POLITICS
The Supreme Court Spared A Man With A Brain Defect From Execution
By Cristian Farias
"Violent and uncontrollable seizures" could result if Ernest Johnson is administered Missouri's drug protocol.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Supreme Court on Thursday decisively sided with Oklahoma and rejected Texas' claim that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross their common border for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
POLITICS
Oklahoma Agrees To Hold Off Executions Until At Least 2016
It's all about the drugs.
FILE - This June 29, 2011, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Charles Warner, who was executed on Jan. 15, 2015 for the 1997 killing of his roommate's 11-month-old daughter. The Oklahoman reported Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 that corrections officials used potassium acetate, not potassium chloride, as required under the state's protocol, to execute Warner.(AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)
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POLITICS
The Supreme Court Let A Man Die. He Was Executed With The Wrong Drug.
By Cristian Farias
The court placed far too much faith in Oklahoma's disastrous lethal injection protocol in January and in June.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer testifies during a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2015. Sprinting toward their spring recess, the House and Senate will separately consider budget blueprints, perhaps leading to the first joint congressional budget in six years. Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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POLITICS
Justice Breyer Couldn't Save Richard Glossip, But He Won The Day Anyway
By Cristian Farias
Oklahoma's disastrous lethal-injection protocol shows he was right about the death penalty all along.
CRIME
Triple Déjà vu: Punishments Lacking Principles
By Jessica S. Henry, Contributor
professor and writer about all things justice
Three different state trials resulted in the same unfair outcomes: death for those that did not physically participate in the killings, and life for those who did. Looking at each of these cases is like having a really bad case of triple déjà vu.
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POLITICS
Richard Glossip, Spared Execution A Fourth Time, Describes 'Torture' Of Uncertainty
By Kim Bellware
The Oklahoma death row inmate seems to be "suffering from a kind of PTSD," a friend said.
Richard Glossip in early 2015.
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POLITICS
Oklahoma Governor Issues 37-Day Stay For Inmate Richard Glossip
By Kim Bellware and Cristian Farias
MCALESTER, Okla. -- A tense scene that had unfolded just two weeks earlier was playing out again at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
RELIGION
Goddamn It, They Executed Kelly Gissendaner
By Adam Nicholas Phillips, Contributor
Pastor of Christ Church: Portland
The death penalty needs to be firmly and forever banned in the U.S. We are worse off as a people for allowing anyone to be put to death -- no matter however heinous their crimes. Regardless if one repents and reforms like Kelly or not, the death penalty needs to be forever outlawed.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocay groups rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on September 29, 2015 in Washington, DC. Legal experts, death penalty opponents, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans have fought tirelessly to prevent the execution of Glossip. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Declines To Spare Richard Glossip's Life
By Cristian Farias and Kim Bellware
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour plea by Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to stay his execution, minutes
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 28: Sir Richard Branson speaks during the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting on September 28, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
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POLITICS
Richard Branson Joins The Pope In Call To Halt Glossip Execution
By Ryan Grenoble
"This is about every person deserving a fair trial."
VIDEOS
Richard Glossip Makes Final Plea To Supreme Court To Halt His Execution
Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma man whose execution was temporarily put on hold earlier this month but who is now set to die on Wednesday, made one final plea to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday evening.
RELIGION
Dear State of Oklahoma, Please Don't Murder Richard Glossip
By Michele Madigan Somerville, Contributor
Author of Glamourous Life (2018), Black Irish, WISEGAL
If you are the praying kind, please keep Richard Glossip, his family, loved ones and defense team, and the State of Oklahoma, in your prayers.
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