In 5-3 decision, the justices set aside Richard Glossip's conviction, saying it may have been based on false testimony.

The Court ruled that prosecutors withheld information and leaned on faulty testimony during the Oklahoma man's original murder-for-hire trial

The Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip after finding flaws in his death row conviction, citing withheld evidence and inconsistent witness testimony.

Richard Glossip, who has maintained his innocence for over two and half decades on death row, will get a new trial after spending the better part of his life behind bars. Glossip was initially convicted of commissioning the murder of an Oklahoma motel owner in 1997.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in favor of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip in his bid to challenge his conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire plot and granted him a new trial.

The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors wrongly withheld evidence

Richard Glossip’s case became a focal point in the national debate over the death penalty, which critics say is unjust or unfairly applied.

A fractured Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose appeal drew national attention and support from the state’s conservative attorney general,