Death Row Inmate Saved by Supreme Court
Richard Glossip was scheduled to die nine times after being convicted of murder. Now he could walk free. ‘This is truly a miracle,’ his wife tells The Free Press.

Richard Glossip and his wife Lea in January. (Courtesy of Lea Glossip)
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Lea Glossip has been waiting nine years for this moment.
The anti–death penalty activist struck up a pen pal friendship with death row inmate Richard Glossip in 2016. Six years later they married, when he was 59 and she was 32.
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