![]() On January 7, 1997, Justin Sneed beat Barry Van Treese to death with a baseball bat. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt ordered a multicounty grand jury investigation of the execution drug mix-up. In September and October 2015, Glossip was granted three successive stays of execution due to questions about Oklahoma's lethal injection drugs after Oklahoma Department of Corrections officials used potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride to execute Charles Frederick Warner on January 15, 2015, contrary to protocol. 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. Glossip is notable for his role as named plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case Glossip v. Glossip's case has attracted international attention due to the unusual nature of his conviction, namely that there was little or no corroborating evidence, with the first case against him described as "extremely weak" by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Sneed received a life sentence without parole. The man who murdered Van Treese, Justin Sneed (aged 19 when he committed the crime), had a " meth habit" and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Glossip. Richard Eugene Glossip (born February 9, 1963) is an American prisoner currently on death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. 1998, re-tried and re-convicted 2004: first-degree murder
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