Death row inmate who ate 3 last meals granted bond after Supreme Court overturned his conviction

Former decease enactment inmate Richard Glossip is acceptable to beryllium released connected enslaved arsenic helium awaits retrial implicit a 1997 sidesplitting for which helium was astir executed 3 times — and had 3 past repast requests.

Examining the "ample" grounds successful Glossip’s case, Judge Natalie Mai recovered Thursday that she could not contradict bail to the longtime prisoner, who was convicted of first-degree execution successful 1998.

She issued an bid mounting enslaved astatine $500,000 and mandated that Glossip stay successful Oklahoma wearing an physics monitoring device.

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Former decease enactment inmate Richard Glossip walks to a courtroom wrong the Oklahoma County Courthouse successful Oklahoma City, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (© BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The ruling comes aft the U.S. Supreme Court successful February overturned Glossip’s condemnation and decease sentence, uncovering prosecutors failed to close mendacious grounds from cardinal witnesser Justin Sneed, the admitted slayer who avoided execution by testifying against Glossip.

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The precocious tribunal ordered a caller trial, citing concerns that jurors ne'er heard captious accusation astir Sneed’s intelligence wellness past and credibility.

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In Thursday’s order, Mai noted the unusually extended grounds developed implicit astir 3 decades of litigation and said the authorities could not conscionable the precocious law modular required to contradict bail successful a superior case.

Former decease enactment inmate Richard Glossip sits adjacent to his lawyer Don Knight successful an Oklahoma County courtroom successful Oklahoma City, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Glossip's attorney, Don Knight, said that Glossip ate a singular 3 past meals and volition get the accidental "to sensation freedom."

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"We are highly grateful that Judge Natalie Mai has granted Richard Glossip a bond.  In doing so, she rejected the State’s assertion that determination is simply a beardown lawsuit for guilt. For the archetypal clip successful 29 years of being incarcerated for a transgression helium did not commit, during which helium faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 past meals," Knight said.

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"Mr. Glossip present has the accidental to sensation state portion his defence squad continues to prosecute justness connected his behalf against a strategy that the United States Supreme Court has recovered to beryllium blameworthy of superior misconduct by authorities prosecutors. Mr. Glossip is profoundly grateful to the galore thousands of radical who person expressed enactment for him implicit the years and present looks guardant to the time erstwhile helium is exonerated and genuinely escaped from this decades-long nightmare."

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Former decease enactment inmate Richard Glossip leaves an Oklahoma County courtroom successful an Oklahoma County courtroom successful Oklahoma City, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (© BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

He was convicted for the 1997 sidesplitting of his erstwhile boss, Barry Van Treese. The motel proprietor was beaten to decease by Sneed, a attraction worker, but authorities prosecutors said Glossip ordered him to transportation retired the transgression successful a murder-for-hire plot.

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Glossip has been incarcerated since January 1997.