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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

The death row inmate whose conviction looks so shaky even Oklahoma Republicans are fighting to save him

(Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP)

Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, 59, has escaped the execution chamber three times. He may yet survive a fourth time if a growing innocence movement around his case is successful.

Glossip was convicted of ordering the 1997 murder of his boss at an Oklahoma City motel and has been in criminal justice limbo ever since. His death date has been postponed twice because of court-mandated delays. In 2015, the state of Oklahoma realised at the last minute it was using the wrong execution drugs and called things off once again, part of the impetus for a series of investigations that led to a six-year pause in executions.

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