OKLAHOMA CITY—Talk show host and clinical psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw stood on the steps of the Oklahoma Capitol and said the state planned to execute an innocent man but still had time to correct its error.
“The highest law enforcement officer in the state of Oklahoma courageously stood up and said, ‘We blew this.’ You’ve admitted it; now make it right,” McGraw told a crowd of about 300 on May 9, 2023.
“No execution should be carried out.”
The demonstration was initially planned to persuade Gov. Kevin Stitt to grant death row inmate Richard Glossip a reprieve.
File photo of Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP)
On Friday, May 5, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Glossip a stay of execution while considering two writs of certiorari in his murder case….