Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row since 1998, will be removed from potential execution and face a new trial in his murder case, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
The state’s main witness, Justin Sneed, admitted to beating Glossip’s boss to death with a baseball bat and offered his testimony in exchange for immunity from the death penalty.
The case is a rare win for a death row inmate, especially in Oklahoma which has the highest execution rate per capita.
Oklahoma man has been on death for 26 years and faced three separate ‘last meals’.
However, years later, the Oklahoma Criminal Appeals Court found Sneed to be grossly unreliable.
