{"id":1247,"date":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","slug":"oklahomas-richard-glossip-freed-on-bond-after-30-years-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma\u2019s Richard Glossip freed on bond after 30 years on death row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge set a $500,000 bond in the 1997 murder case headed for retrial after a supreme court decision<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a> judge on Thursday allowed Richard Glossip, a former death row prisoner, to be released on bond after almost 30 years behind bars, as he awaits a retrial over a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three separate times.<\/p>\n<p>The decision clears the way for Glossip, 63, to leave prison for the first time since his arrest nearly three decades ago. Last year, the US supreme court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/supreme-court-ruling-richard-glossip-death-row\">threw out<\/a> his conviction. His longstanding claims of innocence have drawn support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kim-kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> and other prominent figures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/richard-glossip-oklahoma-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge set a $500,000 bond in the 1997 murder case headed for retrial after a supreme court decision Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email An Oklahoma &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1247\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}