Scheduled Execution (05/18/23): Richard Glossip - Oklahoma Death Row – Innocent or Guilty?

Former motel manager Richard Eugene Glossip (59) is scheduled to be executed on December 8, 2022 for ordering the 1997 killing of his boss, Oklahoma City Best Budget Inn Motel owner Barry Van Treese. The killer, Justin Sneed, was sentenced to life without parole and Glossip received the death penalty. NOTE: Richard Glossip had been scheduled for execution on September 22. This video was made BEFORE Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on August 16 issued a 60-day stay of execution. UPDATE (THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2026): Former Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip was released from prison on a $500,000 bond reportedly posted by reality TV star Kim Kardashian. Glossip must wear a GPS monitoring device and is forbidden from leaving Oklahoma. Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that the state will retry Glossip for first-degree murder, but prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. — On February 25, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Glossip's conviction in a 5-3 ruling, finding that prosecutors violated his right to a fair trial by allowing a key witness to lie and by withholding evidence from Glossip's defense team. The court ordered a new trial should Oklahoma prosecutors choose to retry the case. — Richard Glossip was scheduled for execution nine times during his nearly 30 years on death row and came extremely close to being executed on three separate occasions, having been served a special final meal request of pizza three times. Glossip was last scheduled to be executed on May 18, 2023. A presentation on the case of Richard Glossip first appeared on the Death Row & Executions channel in August, 2022 just prior to his scheduled execution that year. [UPDATE: FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023]: Richard Glossip's scheduled execution has been stayed again. On Friday, May 5, 2023, the United States Supreme Court put a hold on the execution that was scheduled for May 18. The emergency hold was set so that the justices consider his request to formally take up his case. UPDATE (TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023): The execution of Richard Glossip has been rescheduled for May 18, 2023. UPDATE (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022): On this day, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied a petition for a hearing on new evidence in the case of Richard Glossip. He is scheduled to be executed on February 16, 2023. UPDATE (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022): Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced another stay of execution for death row inmate Richard Glossip so that an appeals court has more time to consider his claim of innocence. The November 21st date of execution has been rescheduled for February 16, 2023. UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 22, 2022): A clemency hearing for Richard Glossip has been scheduled for November 9, 2022. UPDATE (AUGUST 23, 2022): After Glossip was granted a 60-day stay of execution, the clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board that had been scheduled for August 23rd was also postponed. No date for a hearing has been set.