Ex-Oklahoma inmate who was nearly executed 3 times gets new trial

A new murder trial is due to begin in September for Richard Glossip , the former Oklahoma inmate who spent decades on the state's death row and was nearly executed three times before the Supreme Court overturned his conviction last year. Glossip, 63, was granted bond in May and released from prison for the first time since his arrest on murder charges in 1997. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of his former boss, Barry Van Treese , who owned the Oklahoma City motel where Glossip worked and died after being bludgeoned with a baseball bat, according to court filings. Attorneys representing Glossip had asked the state judge who ordered his release on bond to consider whether there was enough evidence to retry him. But after a hearing Tuesday, the judge ruled that a new trial would start Sept. 28. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond had pledged to retry Glossip for first-degree murder. He is not pursuing the death penalty again. "We are pleased with the ruling," a spokesperson, Leslie Berger, said in an email. Glossip's attorney, Don Knight, declined to comment. Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, left, speaks to media after exiting a detention facility after being granted bond while awaiting retrial, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. AP Photo/Nick Oxford, File Prosecutors have alleged Van Treese's death was a murder-for-hire scheme. …