Attorney General Requests Clemency for Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip Ahead of Parole Board Hearing

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond will recommend clemency for Richard Glossip, who is set to be executed on May 18 on a capital murder charge. Glossip, a former motel manager, was convicted of murder for ordering the killing of his boss, Barry Van Treese, in 1997. Another employee, then-19-year-old Justin Sneed, admitted to killing Van Treese with a baseball bat at the Oklahoma City motel. But in 1998, prosecutors told jurors Sneed killed Van Treese in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Glossip. The state’s five-member Pardon and Parole Board will decide the fate of Glossip, who has spent more than 24 years on death row and had three reprieves or stays of execution.