Richard Glossip has spent 27 years behind bars, most of it on Oklahoma's death row, coming close enough to execution that he has had nine separate execution dates and been fed three “last meals.”
On Tuesday, Glossip, now 62, won a new trial in a stunning U.S. Supreme Court decision that tossed his murder conviction and death sentence for the 1997 killing of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme.
