15, September 2015 Dead
Man Walking
The case against Richard Glossip has received world-wide
attention, including Amnesty International. The facts are as follows: on the
night of January 1997, Glossip was working as a manager at the Best Budget Inn
in Oklahoma City. Sometime during the night his boss, Barry Van Tresse was
murdered. A maintenance worker, Justin Sneed, confessed to the crime. Sneed
claimed that Glossip hired him to kill his boss for money. The case rests
solely on Sneed’s testimony which he provided supposedly to avoid the death
penalty which was granted in a plea bargain deal. In a damning letter sent to
the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, Sneed’s daughter confessed that her
father had falsely implicated Glossip to avoid the death penalty. Glossip has
long maintained his innocence.
Many famous celebrities have voiced outrage over Glossip
imminent execution including Sister Helen Prejean, who is played by actress
Susan Sarandon in the film Dead
Man Walking. This case speaks volumes of a broken system in which a
confessed killer is in a medium security prison while in all probability an
innocent man has been incarcerated for 22 years and now waits his imminent death.
The defense team has called for a new trial which would reveal gross police and
prosecutorial misconduct and very likely exonerate Glossip. I request concerned
readers email Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, (email contact.us@ppb.ok.gov) and demand a stay of execution
pending a new trial.
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