Rejected Oklahoma plea for death penalty commutation highlights clemency’s changing role in US death penalty system
<p>When the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/27/richard-glossip-execution-parole-board/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">decided not to recommend clemency</a> for death row inmate Richard Glossip, the case highlighted the role clemency plays in the death penalty system.</p>
<p>Glossip had asked the board to commute the sentence he had been given for his role in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. He was convicted of paying his co-defendant, Justin Sneed, to kill Barry Van Treese in 1997. Van Treese owned the motel where Glossip was the manager.</p>
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