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A “deeply evil” Oklahoma inmate facing execution for torturing and killing a little girl as part of a cannibalistic fantasy admitted he deserves to die during a hearing in which a final ...
Richard Eugene Glossip (born February 9, 1963) is an American prisoner who was on death row [2] for over two decades at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. [3]
A fractured Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose appeal drew national attention and support from the state’s conservative attorney ...
An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a death row inmate is incompetent to be executed after the prisoner received mental evaluations by psychologists for both defense attorneys and state prosecutors.
Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to provide a psychiatric evaluation to be used on behalf of an indigent criminal defendant if he needed it. [1] [2]
Grant's attorneys alleged that at the time, Oklahoma's juvenile justice system was "among the worst in the country" [6] and that there were "widespread abuses in the juvenile system" at the time. [7] A 1981 report from the television program 20/20 chronicled the sexual abuse and torture that often occurred in Oklahoma's juvenile justice system. [3]
Oklahoma death row inmate, Kevin Ray Underwood, 44, is set to be executed Thursday, 18 years after he killed 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin.
The Supreme Court takes up a death row inmate's claim his conviction is unsound in a case where the state attorney general conceded ... which hears cases from Oklahoma. If the court is divided 4-4 ...