Richard Glossip v. the Death Machine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Inmates had to choose their preferred method of execution before the judge's ruling, a selection that included three forms of lethal injection -- one of which includes midazolam -- or firing squad.
49% : In 2017, a blue-ribbon commission in Oklahoma took a comprehensive look at the death penalty and recommended the number of changes to the method of execution protocol in Oklahoma.
44% : Knight has been working with Glossip since 2014 -- at the behest of Sister Helen Prejean, author of the 1993 book Dead Man Walking and a leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.
42% : "But in reality, if you follow the guidelines of the death penalty, the majority of the guys down here shouldn't even be down here.
39% : Sneed sometimes commented that he couldn't believe he killed a man for so little money," the witness wrote, adding that Sneed's biggest concerns at the time were that he did not get the death penalty and that his girlfriend stay out of prison.

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