Supreme Court to hear case of death row inmate who's had 3 last meals (1 Viewer)

[Politics - CBSNews.com]

Washington — It's been nearly a decade since the Supreme Court first took up Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip's unsuccessful challenge to the state's method of execution. On Wednesday, Glossip will be back at the Supreme Court, this time as the justices consider whether to toss out his conviction altogether and grant him a new trial.

In the 20 years since Glossip, 61, was convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme and sentenced to death, he has had nine execution dates scheduled and eaten his "last meal" three times. But in each of those...

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