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Richard Glossip is an American man who was convicted of hiring to kill for the murder of Barry Van Treese in 1997, for which he was given the death penalty and is currently on death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Glossip was convicted in two separate trials of hiring his co-worker, Justin Sneed, to kill their mutual boss, hotel owner Barry Van Treese, who was killed on January 7, 1997 at a hotel he owned at which Glossip was employed and Sneed received accommodation in return for maintenance duties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appeals court grants Richard Glossip two week stay hours before execution )〕 Glossip's execution is controversial in that he was convicted almost entirely on the testimony of Sneed, who confessed to bludgeoning Van Treese to death with a baseball bat by himself and who was spared a death sentence himself by implicating Glossip.〔 Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has rejected numerous calls for a 60-day stay of execution of Glossip, saying she has reviewed the case and is satisfied with the process and outcome.〔 Glossip is also noted for being the plaintiff in ''Glossip v. Gross'', a U.S. Supreme Court case decided in June 2015 in which a divided Court ruled 5-4 that midazolam may be used as a sedative in combination with other lethal injection drugs. The case was originally titled ''Warner v. Gross'', but Glossip replaced Charles Frederick Warner as the plaintiff after Warner was executed in January 2015, also by Oklahoma, before the case was decided. On September 16, Glossip was granted a 14-day stay of execution by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals just hours before his previously scheduled execution in order for the Court to consider new evidence in his case. On September 30, a stay was granted due to acquisition of a drug contrary to the execution protocol. ==Timeline of recent events== *On October 13, 2014, the Attorney General said the state did not have adequate supply of execution drugs, and delayed the execution of Glossip and two other inmates. *On October 24, 2014 the Clemency board voted unanimously against clemency. *On January 28, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court halted executions in Oklahoma until it decided on lethal injection drugs. *On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, it was reported that late in the previous day, Glossip's attorneys had asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for a stay of execution, asking the Court to examine possible new evidence, just hours before the execution by lethal injection was set to take place, because an inmate who had served time with Sneed had given them a signed affidavit.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Court halts execution of Oklahoma man who claims innocence )〕 This stay was granted so the Court would have time to evaluate the new evidence.〔 *On September 21, Oklahoma City Police released a 1999 police report showing that a box of evidence had been marked for destruction. The report was never provided to attorneys who represented Richard Glossip in his second trial or his appeals according to his new defense team. In an interview published the same day Glossip's attorney Donald Knight criticised the previous attorneys, saying "They did a terrible job. Horrible. No preparation. No investigation." *On September 22, 2015, Glossip's attorneys filed papers referring to a July 1997 psychiatric evaluation of Sneed, in which he said he understood he was charged with murder in connection with a burglary and made no reference to Glossip's involvement. *On September 23, 2015, Glossip's attorneys filed papers complaining that two new witnesses were being intimidated. In affidavits, one witness had claimed that Sneed laughed about lying in court about Glossip’s involvement; another said he was convinced based on his conversations with Sneed that Sneed acted alone. On September 24, 2015 the Oklahoma attorney general's office filed papers stating that the claims of the new witnesses were “inherently suspect”, and that the time it took Van Treese to die and whether blood loss contributed to his death did not affect the trial outcome, in response to a defense claim that the testimony of Dr. Chai Choi, who performed the autopsy was incorrect. *On September 28, 2015, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals voted 3-2 to proceed with execution.〔http://nebula.wsimg.com/48fc4a0c3f9be318b011c88989d09b0d?AccessKeyId=5A52C512D331E7A75AB9&disposition=0&alloworigin=1〕 Presiding Judge Clancy Smith wrote "While finality of judgment is important, the state has no interest in executing an actually innocent man. An evidentiary hearing will give Glossip the chance to prove his allegations that Sneed has recanted, or demonstrate to the court that he cannot provide evidence that would exonerate him." Judge Arlene Johnson wrote that the original trial was "deeply flawed" and an evidentiary hearing should be ordered. *On September 30, 2015, Glossip spoke to the UK's Sky News on the telephone from his cell as he was being served his last meal. Glossip said that Sneed testified at trial that Glossip did not wear or own gloves, "And now he's on TV saying that I did. It continues to show the discrepancies in anything that Justin Sneed has to say." On the same day, death penalty critic Richard Branson bought an advertisement in ''The Oklahoman'' newspaper which had advocated the execution, with Branson stating the evidence against Glossip is flawed and that "every person is deserving of a fair trial", adding, "Your state is about to execute a man whose guilt has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.” The United States Supreme Court denied a stay of execution. One judge, justice Breyer, said he would grant a stay. Governor Mary Fallin stayed the execution after the Department of Corrections received potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride. Execution was reset for November 6, 2015.〔http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/30/us/oklahoma-richard-glossip-midazolam-execution/index.html〕 *On October 1, 2015, Attorney General Scott Pruitt asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to issue an indefinite stay of all scheduled executions in Oklahoma, citing the Department of Correction's acquisition of a drug contrary to protocol, the next day, the request was granted. *On October 6, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin said she hired an independent attorney, Robert McCampbell, to advise her on the legal process. *On October 8, 2015, it was reported that Oklahoma Corrections Department officials used potassium acetate to execute Charles Frederick Warner on January 15, 2015, contrary to protocol. An attorney representing Glossip and other Oklahoma death row inmates said logs from Warner's execution initialed by a prison staff member indicated the use of potassium chloride; however, an autopsy report showed 12 vials of potassium acetate were used. *According to a report on October 16, 2015, due to a grand jury investigation, it was likely the state would not conduct an execution for more than a year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Glossip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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