Richard Glossip has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his former boss.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three separate times.
Glossip wore a gray short-sleeved shirt and jeans as he walked out of the jail hand-in-hand with his wife, Lea Glossip.
“I’m just thankful for my wife and my attorneys. Just thankful,” he said. “It’s
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