Oklahoma's death penalty reforms: Execution capital reckons with its problems.
A Republican attorney general in a deep red state is reckoning with capital punishment’s injustices and deficiencies.
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A Republican attorney general in a deep red state is reckoning with capital punishment’s injustices and deficiencies.
Oklahoma had initially planned to execute more than half its death row inmates in two years. That plan has been reconsidered.
Glossip, 59, is scheduled to be executed on May 18 this year for a 1997 murder-for-hire killing.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond upended the execution calendar and gave Glossip a new chance to prove his innocence.
The state's new attorney general asked Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals to slow down the pace of upcoming executions.