He has had three ‘last meals’ in the death corridor of Oklahoma. The Supreme Court has now launched its conviction

Oklahoma City – Richard Glossip has spent 27 years after bars, most of Oklahoma’s death corridor, which approached the execution that has had nine separate execution dates and has been fed Three “last meals. ”

On Tuesday, Glossip, now 62, won a new test in a Awesome decision of the United States Supreme Court That launched his conviction for murder and death sentence for the 1997 murder of his former boss, the owner of the motel, Barry Van Tresese, in which the prosecutors have claimed that it was a rental for rent.

Glossip has always maintained his innocence. Another man, Justin SneedHe admitted to having stolen Van Treese and hit him to death with a baseball bat, but testified that he did it after Glossip promised to pay him $ 10,000. Sneed was the key witness of the State against Glossip and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Here are some things to know about the case:

What did the Supreme Court say?

In his Majority opinionThe Supreme Court determined that prosecutors could not correct the testimony that they knew how to be false by Sneed and that Sneed lied in the witness post on their psychiatric condition and their reason to take the lithium of drug stabilizer of the mood.

“Correct Sneed’s lie would have undermined her credibility and revealed her willingness to lie under oath,” Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote for five of the judges.

Sotomayor said that the additional fiscal behavior, which includes interfering with Sneed’s testimony, destroying evidence and retaining the statements of the witnesses, further undermined the confidence in the verdict.

What about Glossip now?

Oklahoma Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, who had taken the unusual step to ask the Superior Court for a new trial, said Tuesday that he will request that Glossip remain in prison until prosecutors decide whether to try again. He said he expects a decision in the coming months.

Drummond, a Republican, said he plans to consult the District Prosecutor of Oklahoma, Vicki Behenna, a Democrat, about whether trying Glossip again and if looking for the death penalty, a minor sentence of life imprisonment or pursuing minor charges, such as accessories A murder after the fact.

“I don’t think Richard Glossip is innocent,” Drummond added, recognizing that it would be difficult to try again given the amount of time that has passed since the murder.

Behenna has said previously that he would not consider the death penalty in the case, and Drummond agreed on Tuesday that, although certain cases of rental murder can qualify for the death penalty, he does not believe that the facts in the case of Glossip justify that penalty.

“We need to look back in evidence and see what evidence we have to move on, what memory of witnesses there is, to make a determination,” Drummond said.

Glossip almost receives lethal injection

Glossip has had nine separate scheduled execution dates and has almost been executed several times. In 2015, he was arrested in a cell next to the Oklahoma execution chamber, hoping to be tied to a stretcher and injected with drugs that would kill him.

But the time scheduled for its execution was and came, and behind the walls of the penitentiary of the state of Oklahoma, Prison officials were fighting After learning one of the lethal drugs they received to carry out the procedure did not match the execution protocols.

The drug mixture, which closely followed a Failed execution In 2014, it finally led to almost Seven -year moratorium on executions In Oklahoma.

What about the victim’s family?

A message left on Tuesday with Van Trese’s brother, Ken Van Trecess, was not immediately returned, but several members of Van Tresese have long said that Glossip should die for his role in the murder.

“I have conferred with several members of the Van Treese family and I have given them my sincere sadness where they are, where they are,” said Drummond.

A family lawyer wrote in a brief for the Superior Court Last year they want to see the condemnation and confirmed Glossip sentence.

“In this case, the Van Treese family has patiently waited for justice for 10,047 days,” lawyer Paul Cassell, a former federal judge, wrote on behalf of the family. “And yet, they are now witnessing the show of their case stuck by the Attorney General for his native state confessing an error in which there is none.”