Plan B Forum

The Oklahoma AG has successfully petitioned SCOTUS to reverse the death penalty imposed on Richard Glossip who may have been innocent of the murder for which he was convicted. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/us/o ... pe=Article.

Apparently a OK review panel in April declined to spare his life by a 2 - 2 vote (one panel member recused himself) despite arguments by the (Republican) AG that the initial verdict was at best unsound. That's why the AG had to go to SCOTUS.

In 2015 Glossip successfully challenged the then OK death penalty procedures on constitutional grounds (one of the proposed chemicals had been substituted) and he was taken off the list literally 30 minutes before his scheduled death. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/us/o ... pe=Article.

Plenty of people probably saw that sort of objection as just legal maneuvering (what does it matter if they substituted potassium acetate for potassium chloride? It'll kill him just as quick!) but let's be grateful for it. It looks as if Mr Glossip may have just have been a garden variety low level criminal in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Didn't read the articles because the NYTimes is behind a paywall.   I already pay monthly for the Washington Post as well as the online version of our local paper and I ain't gonna keep shelling out to read what should be a matter of public information.   Obviously you gotta draw a line somewhere, otherwise, where does it stop?

I will say that it seems ridiculous, though, that a Republican AG and a conservative-leaning, Republican-packed SCOTUS will do so much to protect the life of, in ex-KA's words, "a garden variety low level criminal in the wrong place at the wrong time" when they will do absolutely nothing to protect the lives of schoolchildren, shoppers, concert-goers, and other ordinary citizens who also find themselves "in the wrong place at the wrong time" from nuts with military-grade weaponry.

-"BB"-

However was he convicted in the first place on just the testimonial evidence of an accuser who was an admitted brutal murderer?


Huh.

Bicycle Bill wrote: ↑

Sat May 06, 2023 11:13 am

Didn't read the articles because . . .

I will say that it seems ridiculous, though, that a Republican AG and a conservative-leaning, Republican-packed SCOTUS will do . . . when they will do absolutely nothing to protect the lives of . . .

a) you could just Google the man's name and find out all the information

b) since neither a state AG nor the SCOTUS is responsible for generating legislation protecting the lives of . . . whataboutism is off-beam and meretricious.