SCOTUS reverses Richard Glossip’s conviction
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The really scary thing is that Glossip was convicted twice for hiring a 19-year-old bipolar meth addict to carry out a contract killing, where almost literally the only evidence against him was the killer’s own testimony, which put Glossip rather than the killer on death row. In addition, prosecutors wrongfully withheld key exculpatory evidence from the jury. Glossip came close to being executed nine times, and was actually served a last meal on three of those occasions.
Unlike, say, Cameron Todd Willingham, it’s not practically certain that Glossip is innocent, but it’s completely bizarre to think that the evidence against him comes anywhere close to meeting the evidentiary standard for conviction of beyond a reasonable doubt, let alone for sentencing him to death for a crime that there’s a very substantial probability that he didn’t commit.
Clarence Thomas filed a characteristically bloodthirsty dissent, with which Alito, J., joined.