Nearly 30 years after his conviction, an Oklahoma inmate previously on death row will receive a new trial following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that threw out the guilty verdict because of prosecutorial misconduct.

This time, however, the death penalty is off the table for the now 62-year-old Richard Glossip , Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced Monday .

Glossip has twice been convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 slaying of his boss, Oklahoma City hotel owner Barry Van Treese. Prosecutors alleged Glossip paid a man to murder Van Treese with a baseball bat.

But when Drummond took office in 2023 he ordered a review of the case which found “found multiple instances of trial error casting doubt on the fundamental fairness of the conviction,” the AG’s office said.

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