Oklahoma plans to retry Richard Glossip for murder but will not seek death penalty, top prosecutor says
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Oklahoma to Retry Richard Glossip After Death Sentence Tossed
Above: Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocacy groups rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept. 29, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Image copyright: Larry French/Stringer/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images
The Spin
Left narrative
In spite of there being no physical evidence linking Glossip to the murder, the unreliability of Sneed, and the prosecutorial misconduct in this case, the state of Oklahoma is still insisting on putting Glossip on trial for a murder he in all likelihood had no role in. A bipartisan group of politicians in Oklahoma have stood up for his innocence, and we can only hope that he is exonerated in a fair trial.
Right narrative
Making a big show of real or imagined errors has become good political theatre, with some of the supposed mistakes being immaterial to Glossip's case. This is part of a disturbing trend of winnable cases seemingly being sabotaged in order to make the prosecutors look virtuous. Glossip will still surely wind up behind bars again, but he should've been executed, sparing the Van Treese family this media circus.