The Saga of the Richard Glossip Case: Movement For Greater Transparency Or Abolition of the Death Penalty?

Death row inmate Richard Glossip was lucky in that the State of Oklahoma wanted to hang him and they forgot to bring a rope to the hanging. This tragedy of errors raises the real problem isn’t the drugs used - it is the people administering them.

“I still don’t know why we had potassium acetate,” according to Alex Gerszewski, an Oklahoma Department of Corrections (“D.O.C.”). We can’t discuss how we obtain the drugs.” http://time.com/4057922/oklahoma-lethal-injection-richard-glossip/
“It is mind-boggling that a state could get something this basic wrong in a high-profile execution following a Supreme Court challenge to a state’s execution protocol,” said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which advocates for more transparency in the execution process. “There is no excuse for a state to be so unprepared to carry out an execution.” …show more content…
Recall the months and years of blaring headlines of controversial constitutional issues, innocence and guilt, prosecutorial misconduct, forensics bungling, the ineffectiveness of defense counsel, and tampering with the witnesses - the current focus has been that Glossip’s execution has been delayed indefinitely as the lethal injection execution protocol “remains in the shadows” as a matter of law.

Part of the problem with the ineffectiveness of the execution protocol appears to be based upon Oklahoma’s 2011 privacy law involving the administration of executions