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Death row inmate who ate 3 last meals granted bond after Supreme Court overturned his conviction

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Former death row inmate Richard Glossip is set to be released on bond as he awaits retrial over a 1997 killing for which he was nearly executed three times — and had three last meal requests.

Examining the “ample” record in Glossip’s case, Judge Natalie Mai found Thursday that she could not deny bail to the longtime prisoner, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1998.

She issued an order setting bond at $500,000 and mandated that Glossip remain in Oklahoma wearing an electronic monitoring device.

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The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court in February overturned Glossip’s conviction and death sentence, finding prosecutors failed to correct false testimony from key witness Justin Sneed, the admitted killer who avoided execution by testifying against Glossip.

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The high court ordered a new trial, citing concerns that jurors never heard critical information about Sneed’s mental health history and credibility.

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In Thursday’s order, Mai noted the unusually extensive record developed over nearly three decades of litigation and said the state could not meet the high constitutional standard required to deny bail in a capital case.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Glossip’s attorney, Don Knight, said that Glossip ate a remarkable three last meals and will get the chance “to taste freedom.”

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“We are extremely grateful that Judge Natalie Mai has granted Richard Glossip a bond.  In doing so, she rejected the State’s claim that there is a strong case for guilt. For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, during which he faced nine execution dates and ate three last meals,” Knight said.

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“Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom while his defense team continues to pursue justice on his behalf against a system that the United States Supreme Court has found to be guilty of serious misconduct by state prosecutors. Mr. Glossip is deeply grateful to the many thousands of people who have expressed support for him over the years and now looks forward to the day when he is exonerated and truly free from this decades-long nightmare.”

He was convicted for the 1997 killing of his former boss, Barry Van Treese. The motel owner was beaten to death by Sneed, a maintenance worker, but state prosecutors said Glossip ordered him to carry out the crime in a murder-for-hire plot.

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Glossip has been incarcerated since January 1997.

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NYC Republican lawmaker slams Mamdani antisemitism office as a ‘black hole’ lacking public-facing resources

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As anti-Israel agitators take to the streets in New York City, a councilwoman is calling out the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, saying that it lacks public-facing resources.

“Mayor Mamdani continues to gaslight the Jewish community in New York City by creating a black hole of an office — the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism — an office that has no website, no phone number, no resources,” New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, R-District 48, told Fox News Digital. “There’s nobody to reach out to, there’s nobody to talk to. The public has no sense of how this office can help Jewish New Yorkers.”

The councilwoman said that after a recent hearing, she feels that “the office does nothing to combat antisemitism.”

However, Vernikov said that the issue was not merely a matter of access and stated that even those who reach out to the mayor’s office “really don’t get a response that makes them feel safer or their children feel safer.”

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Vernikov, a Jewish Republican, serves as a co-chair of a bipartisan task force aimed at combatting antisemitism alongside Councilman Eric Dinowitz, D-District 11. The task force, which was formed earlier this year, is separate from the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.

An online search for the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism leads to a page on the New York City government’s website that includes a press release announcing the office, a description of its goals and a list of “recent events and services.” One of the items on the events and services list is a “listening tour,” the findings of which will be used to “inform a report and a subsequent strategy on combatting antisemitism in New York City.”

Other events and services include Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s visit to the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Passover Seders, Food Distribution with Chasdei Lev and an Orthodox Community Leaders Roundtable.

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In recent weeks, New York City has seen a slew of antisemitic incidents, including swastika graffiti in Queens and protests outside a Manhattan synagogue and in a Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn. Following the protest outside Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, Mamdani said that his administration was committed to ensuring New Yorkers could safely enter or exit a house of worship. However, he said that he “firmly” disagreed with the event taking place inside the synagogue, a statement that critics interpreted as support for the protesters.

“When we have a real estate expo that is promoting the sale of land which includes the sale of land in the occupied West Bank, in settlements that are a violation of international law, that is something that I firmly disagree with,” Mamdani said in response to a reporter’s question. The mayor added that he saw the land sales as something that “has been at the heart of an ongoing effort to displace Palestinians from their homes.”

The proximity of the protests to Jewish institutions has many Jewish New Yorkers concerned for their safety, something Vernikov said she has heard from her constituents. Vernikov argued that the debate over where protests take place is not about restricting freedoms, but preventing intimidation.

“This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. It has everything to do with trying to intimidate and harass Jews, and that’s all these protesters are fighting for,” Vernikov said.

Amid the protests and vandalism, Mamdani has faced criticism for his decision to veto a bill that would have created a “buffer zone” around educational institutions to protect them from protests. The City Council also passed a version of the bill aimed at protecting houses of worship, which Mamdani did not veto.

Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.

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