
Richard Glossip, death row inmate who's had 3 last meals, returns to Supreme Court in bid for new trial
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Washington — It's been nearly a decade since the Supreme Court first took up Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip's unsuccessful challenge to the state's method of execution. On Wednesday, Glossip will be back at the Supreme Court, this time as the justices consider whether to toss out his conviction altogether and grant him a new trial.
In the 20 years since Glossip, 61, was convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme and sentenced to death, he has had nine execution dates scheduled and eaten his "last meal" three times. But in each of those instances, his executions were put off and his life spared.
The most recent reprieve came last year, when the high court agreed to block his death by lethal injection. Months later, the justices took up his bid for a new trial after Oklahoma's top law enforcement official argued his conviction and sentence should not stand.

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