Oklahoma Death Sentence Overturned
Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip, right, after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City.
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An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial. Judge Natalie Mai on Thursday set bond for Richard Glossip in the amount of $500,000. Glossip must wear an electronic monitoring device and will not be allowed to travel outside Oklahoma. He also must not contact any witnesses in the case, or consume any drugs or alcohol. The decision paves the way for the 63-year-old Glossip to be freed for the first time in nearly 30 years. Glossip has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his former boss.
On Thursday, former death row inmate Richard Glossip was freed from jail hours after he was …
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