Supreme Court halts execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2023
- Richard Glossip was convicted of organizing the 1997 murder of his boss, Barry Van Treese. But he says he’s innocent. Today, the Supreme Court halted the execution of the Oklahoma death row inmate. Hours ahead of the news breaking, Lester Holt spoke with Glossip in an exclusive interview.
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Oh, it’s typical that a single murder gets the death penalty, but a mass murderer by all means gets the luxury of 3 meals a day, and live with general population
MASS! MASS MASS MASS.
A single murder is a travesty a million murders is a statistic. - Stalin
Too many bleeding hearts on a jury......
What? That's not true. In states that have a death penalty mass murderers are getting the death penalty. Where do y'all get this stuff? Fox "news?"
@@ricksmith4736 dude- a jury convicted him and gave him the death penalty
Wouldn't giving someone 9 separate execution dates, having him prepare each time to die and then saying "gotcha!" qualify as cruel and unusual punishment?
Seems like this guy's conviction is tenuous at best to begin with. What an outrageous system of "justice" we have here in the so called land of the free
Turns out he had a supreme court case in 2015 regarding Oklahoma trying to use a substitute drug to execute people... 5-4 conservatives rules it probably wouldn't be a painful death, but technically inmates should have found a proven alternative as well as prove that the death would be painful...
Not if he wanted the executions to be stopped. For example if you had to do time in the hole three months and you kept using legal avenues to get it delayed at the last minute. It was your choice to put it off. Now had it been a case where the state kept having problems to where they couldn't perform the execution at the time than yes it would have been cruel and unusual.
We don’t have a justice system anymore. It’s a law enforcement system and that’s very different.
@@LarrySinclairAndBarack that assumes he, a prisoner, has control over the courts and their schedules.
Last minute means death, so every decision/procedure is potentially his last minute, no?
This is my thoughts as well. Why not take this man off death row until a final determination can be made. It sounds like this man is at least owed a new trial
Guilty or innocent, being within minutes of death on 3 occasions and facing death 9 times seems like cruel and unusual punishment, which the Constitution expressly forbids.
If he's innocent, this is a good thing, but I can't help but think of all the falsely accused black men who were put to death with no one to intercede.
Yeah crazy it’s almost as if death penalty is bad because it can never be taken back when innocence shows itself
@Suppository laxative Not when it’s a cut and dry case. This one isn’t. There needs to be some reason and stipulations for the death penalty. It should be something given without a shadow of a doubt to the heinous actions that said person committed.
If there’s even the slightest doubt as to the guilt of the individual, they should by law not get the death penalty.
@@purevenus6359 what do you mean slightest doubt tho? some people would say the OJ Simpson case was cut and dry; others wouldn’t. In that case, whether or not it is cut and dry depends entirely on the jury. This inconsistency is pretty bad especially considering the fact that people do make mistakes.
Sometimes it may seem like the most cut and dry case: in which case you will accidentally murder an innocent person.
Just do the following please:
Acknowledge that people are imperfect,
Understand that the government probably shouldn’t have the ability to euthanize people, especially with how corrupt it can be
The nine time bait and switch is inhumane, like forcing someone to undergo several Russian roulettes over the course of several years
The fact that someone tried to tamper with evidence should be enough to question his innocence. Sounds like he was framed to coverup a real murder.
You mean question his guilt…..
To question means to doubt.
@@Lapusso650 innocent until proven guilty
@@RubenGonzalez-zk1sk exactly. That’s what IM saying
@@Lapusso650 when someone tries to edit a statement something is askew. I don’t know the story but something doesn’t seem right with this. There have been plenty of cases where people have been let go after 20 or 30 years of imprisonment because hard evidence was uncovered that that were in fact innocent. You can’t get that time back.
What are your thoughts?
@@dirtyminerapparel you said the opposite of what you meant. You need to learn what “question” means.
Make peace with the situation sounds like he's had to do that 9 times.
If theres any doubt, death penalty should be off the table
Agreed. Deaf penalty should be for people who are undoubtedly guilty. It should also be quick, none of this 20 years sitting on def row.
I think it should be off the table period. I can understand the reason people get behind it. There's these terrible crimes that take place that seem beyond retribution and people want to find some way to fight back. But when you compare what it costs the taxpayers against its proven ineffectiveness as a deterrent, there's just no practical reason to continue it on a broad societal standard.
@@SerpentNight a bullet is cheap. Alot cheaper than giving a murderer life in prison, 3 meals a day, free health care, free education, literally being pampered for the rest of their life until they die of old age, which is what most people don't get to experience. Your just wrong about it being cheaper to house them for decades than to take em out back behind the shed.
@@bradleysmith9431 let me ask you a question rq.
We live in a court system that functions with the principle of ‘beyond reasonable doubt.’
With this doctrine, we still sentence innocent people to death.
How is this possible? To those jury it can be there was no reasonable doubt that the person committed the crime. Yet later, more evidence came out to reveal the innocence of a dead man
In other words, no death penalty at all? Because there can always be doubt. The distinction made in our courts is whether or not that doubt is reasonable.
If you think death penalty is fine if the jury thinks the defendant committed the crime ‘beyond reasonable doubt’-then good job, that’s how our system works right now.
However our system sentences innocent people to death. So in other words, your idea of when the death penalty should be used is responsible for the deaths of many innocent people
I think the death penalty should be reserved for those who absolutely red handed did it. Life in prison for such a conviction would make more sense and be less controversial
For real, if there isn’t CCTV footage of you committing the crime there is a chance its wrong and you shouldnt be killed just in case you were innocent
@@Brenda0312F You missed the entire point.
@@Brenda0312Fthe death penalty costs taxpayers MORE than a life sentence, look it up
Until somebody does something to your loved one
@@Brenda0312F It costs way more taxes in the countless appeals that those on death row are granted. plus, once they're dead, they're dead. Nothing. No pain, suffering, no getting to think about what they did. As someone who struggles with suicidal ideation, I would gladly take instant death with a smile on my face over having to live with shame and guilt in a metal box for the rest of my life, surrounded by murderers, rapists, child abusers, and guards on a power trip. That sounds like a much more deserving punishment to me, and I'll gladly opt-on to use my tax dollars to "support" them. I'd rather pay for that than state-sponsored executioners.
The problem with the death penalty is that it can't be reversed if a mistake is made. A number of people have been saved from death when the truth came to light. The same thing has happened with jail sentences as well. No one can give back their years, but at least they're free or at least on reduced sentences.
Actually it can be overturned that's why the Supreme Court is halting all of that but still that's the problem is the years these people have lost
@@dw9932 he wasn't saying the ruling cannot be changed, the punishment, once given, cannot be reversed... As in we cannot bring the dead back to life... Yet...
@@billykann7725 Republican Qanon fools think we already can with the cells of infants 😂 the same barefoot rubes with voting power and Maga hats
@@billykann7725yet?
@X vonPocalypse I never stated approval for the system, i only corrected his misunderstanding of the statement made
They need to release him on lack of evidence! He needs to be paid for all that has been done to him! Other cases need to be reviewed because of the dirty deeds. Maybe that's why that don't want to drop charges, because it is an admittance to the dirtiness of it all and they don't want to be looked into more deeply.....
I honestly think you’re right I think that’s what’s going on
I used to believe in the death penalty...but not when you see that there are corrupt prosecutors, judges, cops...one innocent person killed on death row is one person too many.
That's cruel and unusual punishment
I came here to say the exact same thing. Psychological torture.
Exactly. There's no way you can face your own death so many times and not develop cPTSD.
The AG should conduct an independent investigation on the conduct of the District Attorney and get to the bottom of this
just let the man go at this point. how many times you gonna play with this mans life?
A person in ohio just killed a man and wife, execution style in their driveway and he got life in prison. This justice system is like a little child shaking a magic 8 ball to get a fair outcome. Idiocracy.
Sounds like this man needs to be released already. If you've had to deal with being told "Today's your last day buddy" several timees let alone 9+ I think that amount of mental trauma far outweighs the crime he supposedly committed.
Even if Gossip did do the crime he only would have killed 1 person his boss. This crime somehow outweighs other criminals that end up shooting several people within minutes of their murders.
If this guy can be held up in jail, get the death penalty several times, and is still locked up, then these multi-murderers should also be death row inmates not put in jail for a couple of months.
Yes 🙌
No. If he's guilty he gets the punishment.
This seems like it should fall under cruel and unusual punishment.
@@ScottWaa it's not that cruel. He knows he murdered someone he's okay with dying but obviously he wants to live. You're gullible grow up get smart think outside the box or you'll be nothing your whole life
They are psychologically torturing Mr. Glossip with the repeated threats of execution.
Just another day in America! 🇺🇸
You realize he would have no chance in any other country right. At least he has a chance
@@danielbick2646 Why would you say something so ignorant? Have you been to another country? Some countries don’t even have the death penalty. Some countries have better forensic departments and better public defenders. If we relied on people like you the country would never progress because you are happy with the status quo.
@@danielbick2646 you must be a world person. What countries have you been to?
3 within minutes? This has reached the level of cruel and unusual. It's torture.
Well said 🙏
This is what happens when you have death penalty on the law.
Corruption finds a way. remember that
Why now? The guy has been in prison for what 25yrs already. Now the Court's step in.
Hey way to not inform yourself. Their AG requested this and has laid out his reasons why the first trial was unfair. No the courts did not unilaterally do this.
ya u right, lets fry him in the letric chair and have a barbeque, WOO!
cmon. really? why now?
Pro death penalty, In fact i think it needs to be used more often and carried out more swiftly but only slam dunk cases where there is no doubt the party is guilty as in several witnesses , caught on camera, etc.. Cases where all they have is circumstantial evidence regardless of how much should not even lead to prosecution let alone a death penalty. Let's also start holding people responsible for someone's false imprisonment, the detectives, prosecutor's and even judges. Anyone found guilty and imprisoned to later be found innocent should receive no less than 1 million dollars for each year they spend incarcerated. Anyone dragged through the mud only to be found innocent in court should also receive some financial payment for their hardship. And all of it should be tax free and the money should come from a source other than the taxpayers. Let everyone involved in law enforcement from the bottom to the top have to pay into a fund and the majority of payment a person would receive would come from that and the rest out of the pockets of those responsible. 80/20?
THIS is the fairest way to go
I prefer criminals being locked up unable to have freedom ever again for their horrible crimes. Im overall against the drsth penalty just due to how bad the justice system tends ti be at correctly convicting people. BUT, i do make an exception as i think we should use the desth penalty for those too dangerous to have back in public, like when that drug cartel peader kept getting broken out of jail. A one time murderer can be redeemed even if it sits wrong wirh many people, but someone who systematically hunted people for sport or mass murdered a crowd? Or a big crime lord? Yeah those guys can get a quick get out of jail free card via execution.
And anyone found responsible for having an innocent person executed should receive the same. And if found responsible for having an innocent person sent to death row should receive the same prison sentence including the number of ‘near execution’ events
The tax free payments and payment coming from a “source other than taxpayers” can’t really happen sadly because the money the government has to pay out in such situations is taxpayers money but the rest you are absolutely right. If it’s found to be malicious prosecution the case should be thrown out and the prosecutor should be removed from office and serve the maximum time for the charges they brought in this case
The tax free payments and payment coming from a “source other than taxpayers” can’t really happen sadly because the money the government has to pay out in such situations is taxpayers money but the rest you are absolutely right. If it’s found to be malicious prosecution the case should be thrown out and the prosecutor should be removed from office and serve the maximum time for the charges they brought in this case
His life is more important than school kids? Where is their outrage about that?
If death penalties were more swift, we wouldn't have to deal with this sort of thing.
A debate is pointless if justice hasn't been served.
I hope Glossip, if innocent, gets justice.
Justice is the only thing that matters in a country's court system.
Politics don't matter, wins don't matter, and people's opinions don't matter if there has been a miscarriage of justice.
Glossip tricked the cops, and cleaned up the crime scene; 2 juries thought his story was bull.
If the proof was there, I would be fine with being the executioner if no one else would. But when the proof is lacking and questionable, they need to remove it as an option. I'm sure they've got someone else who is up for execution, with enough evidence that no one would question their guilt. They need to back off of this guy, and execute someone else.
The funny thing is our court system works on ‘beyond reasonable doubt.’
I.e death penalties are already administered with a unanimous vote of the jury.
Despite this, we still murder innocent people. In particular, the executioner murders innocent people…
How very traumatic. And it seems he didn’t do anything
The mental torture of that should not be allowed. Minutes before killing him..they say “psych! Just kidding..” 9 TIMES!! 🤬
I feel for that man either way. Even if guilty, his victim did not dangle in the jaws of death so repeatedly. By saying, "he has made peace with it," is to say he has done his best to get used to the idea of being dead. Thank you, criminal justice system for this vision of truth, we are no better than the Romans with their lions.
Unless there is substantial SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE that proves the person on trial did it the death penalty should not apply
Every decision in our courts is made ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ that the person did the crime.
I.e substantial evidence.
Yet, somehow, innocent people are killed. How is this possible? Isn’t our justice system perfect in ensuring fairness and impartiality in sentences?
Praying for them to find the evidence that they need. So glad both sides are coming together. 🙏🙏🙏❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is why I am against the Death Penalty. You can't walk it back once it has been done. There have been scores of people who have been found innocent after they have been executed.
Where is this same energy in every dearth penalty case?
He said, " I did. Not."
This guy had a case before the Supreme Court in 2015 and lost. How is this guy still alive?
Even if he was guilty 9 time's being minute's away from execution is borderline torture
It's just idle talk for God knows whatever reason. Nobody paid for Barry Van Treese's murder, and the Van Treese family is tired of waiting.
So his victim life wasn't important.
@@lsad705 did you not listen to the whole thing? The people who put him in there think his innocent so the victim might not even be his your comment holds no weight
Only when all reasonable doubts have been removed should the DP even be considered. The DP is forever.
This is the problem with capital punishment. It has killed countless innocent people. I've no clue of this mans innocence, but if he didn't do it and was executed for it, who did the state protect?
So do these two loudmouth lawmakers have any evidence at all… even his family thinks he’s guilty.
Did you miss the part where a prosecutor admitted to trying to falsify testimony and withhold evidence?
Why is this important?
Great reporting NBC!!! Every once in a while you redeem yourselves.
Typical ignorance and weakness of the judicial system.
Would his death have been stopped, if he were black?
I don't believe the lawmakers for 1 second
Pro-Death Penalty doesnt mean theyre blind to innocent people getting convicted wrongly. Good on them for putting in the leg work to buy him more time.
Yes it does.
If you put death penalty on the table, there will eventually be at least one innocent person who is killed.
You can’t be both pro-death penalty and aware of how our criminal justice system works.
Our system works on ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ yet still murders innocent people.
In many of these cases, it seemed to be a slam dunk. Yet they were innocent.
You either get rid of death penalty entirely for the sake of justice, or not.
We simply don’t live in a world where you can always know 100% of the time whether or not someone did a crime or not: that’s what our courts are for. And our courts often make mistakes. Advocating for the death penalty with this knowledge is evil. Advocating for the death penalty makes you ignorant but now you know.
Good Job Supreme Court. Bout time y’all did the right thing.
It doesn’t involve money.
if he is guilty...finish it..this is torture...
Whydafuq would you diminish the victims memory,
The victim’s family always believe the police and prosecutors are straight as an arrow
Just DO IT ALREADY!!!
I am shocked this toxic court would do something humane.
Why?
After a recent interview the with family; why wouldn't they have anything to say now
I’m 100% in favor of execution IF we can prove concretely that the accused is guilty.
Why would he want to keep the cops from finding the body? Why would he clean up the crime scene? 2 juries thought his side of the story was bull.
I WANT TO KNOW WHY ?
Why
this mentioned two reports that found corruption...but it didn't have any real effect except to make people grimace and say maybe we should wait and then continue as planned? at least as a side effect were the people who were found to be corrupt...punished? if not that might be a flaw in incentives of the system
He is like a cat with 9 lives
This is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL punishment.
WHY?????
I am against execution. I shudder to think how many innocent people have been executed. Especially before the dawn of DNA. But I dont see how we can justify executions. Murder is murder. Just because you try and justify it by calling it legal, doesn't make it so.
But what they have done to this guy is cruel and unusual punishment.
But it's ok with them for other people to be executed. They are pro death penalty until they decide this man is innocent. Everybody on death row is innocent... Or haven't you heard ? There is room for error in every execution and the penalty should be abolished.
This case makes mess sick! Free Richard Glossip!!!
This is worst than death
Meanwhile Desantis is making it easy for Florida to find people guilty it only takes 8 of them to find you guilty
Could They do that a day of Stay at Abortion Clinics?
Only media that is left want this guy out who committed a horrible crime
You trust prosecutor with quotas to make their government look competent
How cute
@@aprilmcclanahan4830 what system do you propose. If it's a better idea that what is in process I'm all ears. Dude can't even convince a jury that he sat in front of if he was innocent beyond a reasonable doubt he wouldn't be in jail.
Thank god 😢😢
Does OK permit the Governor to reduce the sentence to life and lake the pressure?
Hey Little Lester that's some real hard hitting investigating you're doing .
That’s too bad
Shameful. Dude should be out.
Only 1 old guy died. Old guy was probably going to die in 20 years anyways
Sounds to me like he needs to be taken off of death row & granted a new trial
I came here because I am interested in this story. I almost skipped it because NBC has lied to us so much. Now I hope I can find other sources.
The process is broken
Is there a transcribed courtroom documents? Any living juries.
In many cases, the only access to the court transcription is if you go there and read through them in the room where they are kept. The same for any audio tape. In other cases, you might have to go to court to demand transcripts of the court documents and audio. I am not in law, but I followed some podcasts which covered Innocence projects. I imagined you could walk into a county or state court and have access to trial documents, but it’s not easy, even after all the appeals are exhausted. Before appeals are exhausted, the prosecutor doesn’t want anything to happen to make it so he or she loses the case, even though there’s a law against knowingly withholding evidence that will make a difference in the case. Then after the appeals, it’s been a long time, it’s over, and then it’s more a matter of sloppiness.
Who is going to bother to take much time to pass laws about the records which uninvolved parties access? Then, I presume the laws have to be made jurisdiction by jurisdiction, and for each new form of media if the wording is too restrictive.
I’ve only read about one case where the man served under 15 years where his case was eventually cleared due to his innocence.
It’s crazy. I had to stop following the cases. The best way to know what was said in court is to watch the video of live proceedings. It took me awhile to realize, oh this is why it’s a big deal that we have court tv now. it’s not just mindless entertainment. it might be the only way to see know what happens
Now imagine if glossip was a black man. How many execution dates do you think he’d survive? Either way I’m stoked for Gossip and I hope the barbaric punishment of the death penalty is eradicated soon.
Daniel Holtzclaw is innocent as well
Unless you are black in Oklahoma, you still have chances to escape death penalty 😕
I read up on this case and realized what an absolute joke the U S justice system is.
Why is this man even locked up?
Read the comments and you will find out why the US is such a joke of a nation.
People are more concerned about killing bad criminals than saving the lives of innocent people: the people the courts are supposed to protect.
@@suppositorylaxative3179 If I could go back in time and stop Barry Van Treese's murder, I would, but I don't have a choice. No person needs killing.
Richard Glossip tricked the cops and cleaned up the crime scene. 2 juries thought his story was bull.
@@MrJuvefrank 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dummy
@@pistolpete8231 What a smart person you are for defending a murderer on UA-cam.
sounds like something’s fishy
we can all agree that life begins when you take your first breath freed from the womb
Wrong
@@TweaNation
a stone isnt born either
do you claim its alive
The definition of life doesn't change based on your wants and desires. You are wrong.
Why would life begin then? It makes more sense that it begins at inception.
God and biology say otherwise. Jeremiah 1:5
He is probably guilty ! He’s the victim ! Lol.
He must have written a huge check.
Supreme court halts execution o.... is all I saw in my phone..
My brain filled in Order 66, I had to click on this specifically to know I was wrong 😅
1997 and he still looks young. He must've been like 18yo when the murder happened
I don't think he was that young when Barry Van Treese was murdered.
Life in prison. The death penalty is for the most part a sham and travesty
I am going to have to give up you tube because of obiden ads
Oklahoma should also re open the Daniel Holtzclaw Case,,,
Doesn't matter if you are tried by a jury and found guilty anymore.
Apparently to some people it doesn't matter if exculptory evidence is withheld either. Pick up a book sometime Cleatus and try to read it. The next time you won't sound so stupid when you post something.
Wow I cannot believe he is still in prison- worst death row! Appalling.
English is little, but .I'm praying for this man live,in JESUS name,.
Maybe Jesus likes Richard Glossip, but religious folks say God doesn't like Glossip's murder for hire plot against Barry Van Treese.
Good, but until he's free there's no justice.
At this point they playing with this man’s life and they should resend his sentence to life because not sure if it’s worth it if there is any doubt.
He is inocent
I don't trust those two trying to get get out. Getting jan 6 vibes
It seems the family wants its pound of flesh, some call it closure, regardless of whose it is.
Beyond a reason of doubt means nothing anymore any confusion or changed story or anything like that is a reason of doubt.
1:30 Oklahoma representatives JJ Humphrey and Kevin McDugal
1:55 prosecutorial misconduct
2:40 Oklahoma is finally going to have the opportunity to look under the hood
America is too soft…..
You must be EXTREMELY sure that you are executing the right person. There are no ops moments allowed.
Tell that to all the innocent black men sentenced to death. The jurors were completely sure that they committed the crime, with or without evidence. The fact that death penalty was on the table made this possible.
Remember that corruption exists. You don’t live in a world where you can say ‘keep the death penalty but only use it when everything is perfectly clear.’
@@suppositorylaxative3179 For the record. I am AGAINST the death penalty. Humans are flawed to the point that they will give someone the death penalty even if they only think someone did something. Also for the record I'm BLACK. I support life in prison. This way if an error was made the authorities can at least partially correct it. You can never get back time though. I can go on this subject a long time and give you dome stuff that...well let's just say. A lot of people have it wrong. Have a good day