Richard Glossip, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American prisoner
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1963
Place of Birth: United States of America, United States
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Richard Glossip
- Richard Eugene Glossip (born February 9, 1963) is an American man currently on death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese.
- Justin Sneed, the man who murdered Van Treese, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Glossip, and received a sentence of life without parole.
- Glossip is the recipient of international attention due to the unusual nature of his conviction, for which there is little or no additional corroborating evidence.Glossip is notable for his role as named plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case Glossip v.
- Gross, which ruled that executions carried out by a three-drug protocol of midazolam, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.In September and October 2015, Glossip was granted three successive stays of execution due to questions about Oklahoma's lethal injection drugs after Oklahoma Corrections Department officials used potassium acetate to execute Charles Frederick Warner on January 15, 2015, contrary to protocol.
- Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt ordered a multicounty grand jury investigation of the execution drug mix-up.
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