Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin swore to “support, obey, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which protects a person’s right to due process before being deprived of his liberty and life. But even though death row inmate Richard Glossip has been deprived of his fundamental human rights, Governor Fallin has refused to stay his execution scheduled for September 30th.
According to numerous credible reports on Glossip’s case, including a recent one by Mother Jones, there is absolutely no physical evidence linking Glossip to the murder of his employer. However, there is plenty implicating a former drug user named Justin Sneed.
Nevertheless, add the reports, police offered Sneed a deal - if he agreed to claim Glossip hired him to commit the murder.
Because Glossip’s court-appointed counsel failed him by omitting important evidence and recently more exculpatory evidence has emerged, there is no excuse for Fallin to refuse a stay at least until all evidence can be properly investigated. Doing otherwise would not be upholding her sworn oath of office.
Nevertheless Governor Fallin seems more interested in supporting a presumption of guilt than one of innocence. Mother Jones notes that last year Fallin even threatened to execute a pair of condemned men in defiance of her own state Supreme Court, which had issued a stay in their cases.”
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