Richard Glossip Wife: Meet Lea Rodger

May 21, 2024

Richard Glossip Wife: Meet Lea Rodger: Born on February 9, 1963, Richard Glossip officially known as Richard Eugene Glossip is an American prisoner.

Glossip is currently on death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese.

Glossip’s boss Barry Van Treese, the owner of the Oklahoma City motel, was beaten to death with a baseball bat at the Best Budget Inn on January 7, 1997, by Glossip’s colleague, Justin Sneed.

Sneed and Glossip both worked at the Best Budget Inn (owned by Barry Van Treese). Sneed was the maintenance man while Glossip was the manager of the Inn.

Following the death of Barry Van Treese, Sneed confessed to carrying out the killing and said Glossip, a manager at the motel, had hired him to commit the murder.

In 1998, an Oklahoma jury convicted Glossip of the murder and sentenced him to death. In 2001, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously threw out that conviction.

According to the court, they called the case “extremely weak” and found Glossip had received unconstitutionally ineffective assistance from counsel.

In August 2004, a second Oklahoma jury convicted Glossip of the murder and sentenced him to death. Glossip complained that prosecutors had intimidated his defense attorney into resigning.

However, in April 2007, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the death sentence, with two judges in the majority, one judge specially concurring, and two judges dissenting

Glossip’s case has attracted international attention due to the unusual nature of his conviction, namely that there was little or no corroborating evidence

In 2015, Glossip was only a few steps away from the execution chamber when guards halted the execution to review the lethal injection drugs.

In May 2023, Richard Glossip hit headlines when escaped a fourth execution attempt after a rare intervention from the US Supreme Court.

The court on Friday, May 5 2023 halted Richard Glossip’s execution after the state’s top lawman said he did not receive a fair trial.

Glossip was scheduled to be executed on Thursday, May 18 2023 for his role in the murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese in 1997.

The justices agreed to halt the execution while they consider whether to take up Glossip’s two pending petitions for appeal, which challenge his conviction on various grounds

Don Knight, an attorney for Glossip, welcomed the court’s action. “We are very grateful to the U.S. Supreme Court for doing the right thing in stopping Richard Glossip’s unlawful execution,” Knight said

On July 1, 2022, Glossip was one of twenty-five death row inmates to be scheduled for execution in Oklahoma. He was scheduled to be executed on September 22, 2022.

On August 16, 2022, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted a 60-day stay of execution. Glossip was then scheduled to be executed on December 8, 2022.

On November 3, 2022, Governor Stitt again granted a stay of execution for Glossip, allowing time for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to address his pending legal proceedings.

Glossip was rescheduled to be executed on February 16, 2023. On January 24, 2023, his execution was rescheduled to May 18, 2023.

This comes after Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested a new execution timetable to accommodate for staff shortages within the Department of Corrections.

At the time of this writing (May 6, 2023), the US Supreme Court has halted Glossip’s execution after the state’s top lawman said he did not receive a fair trial.

Glossip was scheduled to be executed on Thursday, May 18 2023 for his role in the murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese in 1997.

Richard Glossip Wife: Meet Lea Rodger

As of May 2023, Richard Glossip has married twice.

While on death row, Glossip got married to Leigha Joy Jurasik (from New Jersey) at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on 27 September 2018.

In February 2021, the couple divorced. In March 2022, Glossip got married to an anti-death penalty activist, Lea Rodger (From Florida).

Richard Glossip says he has remained focused on the things he wants to do if he gets out of prison.

Source: Ghgossip.com

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