Death Penalty News

After nine execution dates, three last meals, and a Supreme Court ruling in his favor, Richard Glossip should soon walk free. Three decades after he was arrested for a capital crime he swore he didn’t commit — and more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction — former death row prisoner Richard Glossip was granted bond by an Oklahoma judge and released from jail. In an order handed down on Thursday, Oklahoma County District Judge Natalie Mai set Glossip’s bond at $500,000. She ordered him to live with his wife, wear an electronic monitoring device, and abide by a curfew from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., and forbade him from traveling outside the state.

Richard Glossip was released from jail Thursday, May 14, on a $500,000 bond, a major victory for the former death row inmate who has come so close to execution that he has had three last meals. Glossip, 63, is awaiting his third trial in his 1997 murder-for-hire case. He walked out the front door of the Oklahoma County jail, holding hands with his wife, Lea Glossip, as a stiff Oklahoma breeze whipped his hair. "I'm just thankful for my wife and my attorneys," he told reporters. "I'm just happy." His release came hours after Oklahoma County District Judge Natalie Mai set bail in a 13-page order that pointed to issues with the key witness against him.

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 overwhelming, but it’s amazing at the same time.”

Richard Glossip will be released from jail while he awaits a new trial in the 1997 Oklahoma City motel murder case. OKLAHOMA CITY -UPDATE: An Oklahoma County judge has granted a request for bail for former Death Row inmate Richard Glossip. In a ruling on Thursday, a judge ruled that bail for Glossip would be granted while the state prepares to retry him for the 1997 murder of Oklahoma City motel owner Barry Van Treese. Glossip spent more than 20 years on death row before his conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025, which found he did not receive a fair trial. He has remained in the Oklahoma County Jail while the case moves toward a retrial.

American Murder Suspect Cut Off His Ankle Bracelet and Fled to Italy to Escape the Death Penalty Lee Mongerson Gilley Flew From Houston to Milan on Two False Identities. He Was Caught the Moment He Landed. It reads like the opening of a thriller. A man under electronic surveillance in Houston, suspected of killing his pregnant wife, cuts off his ankle bracelet, boards a flight to Canada under a false identity, transfers to a second flight to Italy under a second false identity, and lands at Milan Malpensa with a single objective: to place himself beyond the reach of Texas justice and its death penalty. The plan failed at the first step on Italian soil. Lee Mongerson Gilley, 39, an American software engineer wanted in the United States on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife in October 2024, was identified and detained the moment he arrived at Malpensa. He had cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet in Houston, flown first to Canada using one set of false documents, and then to Italy u...

LAS VEGAS — A man who once stood as the youngest person on Nevada’s death row has officially transitioned from a life behind bars to a life under supervision, following his release from High Desert State Prison last month. Edward Michael Domingues, 49, was released on parole on Feb. 13, 2026. His freedom marks the end of 32 consecutive years of incarceration for the 1993 murders of Arjin Chanel Pechpho and her 4-year-old son, Jonathan Smith. Since his release, the case has ignited a renewed debate over Nevada’s victim notification systems. Tawin Eshelman, the mother and grandmother of the victims, confirmed that the family was never formally notified of the parole hearing that led to Domingues' freedom.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate set to be executed in South Carolina in three weeks wants the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so his lawyers can argue his co-defendant who testified against him lied about having no plea deal in exchange for his testimony. Attorneys for Freddie Owens also said in court papers filed late Friday that a juror saw an electronic stun device Owens had to wear in court to assure good behavior and a judge never talked about why he had to wear it.

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- A murder suspect, who stunned the nation in August for killing one woman before cutting off his electronic ankle monitor and another afterward, admitted to his charges in his first court trial Thursday. The 56-year-old suspect, Kang Yoon-seong, said he is ready to receive the death penalty after acknowledging the charges of killing the two women in Seoul, one on Aug. 26 and the other on Aug. 29, during his first court hearing at the Seoul Eastern District Court. Kang, who has 14 criminal convictions, including sexual offenses, was arrested on Aug. 29 for killing the two women -- one before he cut off his monitoring ankle bracelet and ran away on Aug. 27, and the other while he was on the run. "Murder is wrong no matter how good the reason is. Even if I were sentenced to death today, I wouldn't object. I'm determined to accept that," Kang told the court in a tearful voice. But the suspect refuted part of the prosecution's indictment regar...

President Joko Widodo has signed a government regulation (PP) giving teeth to a controversial law on punishing convicted child molesters with chemical castration. The PP was signed on Dec. 7 but a copy of the document only circulated widely yesterday. Titled PP No. 70/2020 on chemical castration, attachment of electronic tracking devices, rehabilitation, and disclosure of the identities of culprits of sexual violence against children, the regulation most notably mandates the enforcement of heavy punishment on child sex offenders. In 2016, President Joko Widodo signed a Perppu (Presidential Regulation In Lieu of Law) introducing the death penalty and chemical castration for convicted child molesters , which was ratified into law that same year by the House of Representatives (DPR). Since then, two people have been sentenced to chemical castration, but their punishments have been delayed as the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) have refused to be the designated executioner on the grou...

Jakarta. Opposition is growing to the government's decision to impose tougher punishment, including chemical castration, on child sex offenders, a move observers have warned would fail to suppress such crimes and instead undermine human rights. A government regulation in lieu of law, signed by President Joko Widodo on Wednesday (25/05), allows an additional penalty of chemical castration against pedophiles, serial rapists and those involved in gang rape, but not against underage perpetrators. Offenders will also have to wear electronic devices after release from prison so authorities can track their movements. The regulation will soon be deliberated at the House of Representatives to revise the 2002 law on child protection. The government has defended the regulation, which House leaders have hinted would get the nod from most lawmakers, saying it would set a deterrent for perpetrators, as well as effectively reduce what Jokowi has declared an "extraordinary crim...

President Widodo President Joko Widodo on Wednesday (May 25) signed a government regulation in lieu of the law approving the death penalty as a maximum sentence for sexual crimes against children. According to the regulation, offenders could face chemical castration and be monitored with an electronic chip tracking their movements.  Other forms of punishment included in the bill extend to life imprisonment, as well as a minimum of 10 to 20 years in jail. "Sexual violence against children is an extraordinary crime," the President said at a news conference at the presidential palace, adding that he hoped the regulation would keep perpetrators in check and discourage sexual crimes. The harsher stance for child rapists and perpetrators of sexual violence against children comes after activists and masses called for reform, in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old-school girl in Bengkulu on the western island of Sumatra in April. The ...