A message left Tuesday with Van Treese's brother, Ken Van Treese, was not immediately returned, but several members of Van Treese's family have long said that Glossip should die for his role in the killing.
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.
Glossip, who currently is housed at the maximum-security Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, is expected to remain imprisoned until prosecutors decide whether to retry him, said Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
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.”.
But the scheduled time for his execution came and went, and behind the walls of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, prison officials were scrambling after learning one of the lethal drugs they received to carry out the procedure didn’t match the execution protocols.
