#TreeSe

[amarawisbey]

[pairs-studio]

[ninjastormhawkkat]

Some Chaotic Four headcanons for you, food edition

Jenkins doesn't look like it but he has an iron stomach. He can consume the spiciest foods and not have any stomach troubles afterwards. Joe is the one of the few who could handle Jenkins spicy food.

Patricia like Victor has a very sweet tooth. Victor and her would often have little fights about candy and other confections. She loves pure sugary types of candy. Caramel being her favorite.

Hugh can't handle spicy or sweet foods. He prefers making his own version of the meals he had back at home. It makes him less homesick. The only one who can eat his food with ease is Alan. It's been described as squishy and crunchy at the same time in the worse of ways.

Archie built up a tolerance to spicy food due to living with Jenkins for years. He's the other one whose able to handle it. He hates everything that has cinnamon in it. He can't stand mints of any kind.

I love these food headcanons. Aww, Alan being a good boyfriend.

[cyus-on-the-internet]

I love nature somuch. I’m still on a highway so it isn’t 100% but i’m surrounded by treese

[dirty-bosmer]

10 years that I've been pronouncing saltrice "sal-treese" like "Patrice." Didn't even pass through my brain that it could be SALT RICE

[pinkglacierz]

Canna-Papí (Father’s Day Inspired) Collection 🖤🥃💵

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 ! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐀 𝐃𝐞𝐜ó𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐈𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓, 𝐈𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 & 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 ! 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 & 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 !

** 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝒆𝒄ó𝒓 𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 & 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝑩𝒚 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒛 **

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 :

- Treese's Edibles

- Backwoods (3 Swatches)

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- Reese's Ice Cream (2 Swatches)

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- Teremana (3 Swatches)

- Jean Gautier Cologne

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❀ 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐎𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐠 𝐔𝐬 @ 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰

❀ 𝐃𝐨 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐀 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜

❀ 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 ; 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 🙃

❀ 𝐈𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 , 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐞.

𝐈𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐎𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭!

📲 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕌𝕤 𝕆𝕟 𝕆��𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕤 - ℙ𝕚𝕟𝕜𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕫 𝕆𝕟 𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕤 📲

[giantologist]

When giants get sneezes and coughs and diseases

They ought to stay home and keep warm.

For gigantic sneezes can blow down our treeses

And whip up a terrible storm!

- Tall Stories by John Patience

[focsle]

Mr. Chappell, like so many of these other whalers, assumes a “Reader”. It’s meeee, lad.

“Sunday August 7th

Beautiful weather all day Wind W. by S.W.

The rising sun is a shight to be admired anywhere but particularly at sea If I could tell of its beauties or describe them it would be a source of pleasure but I cannot I think if you was here I say you I mean any one that never saw the sight at sea would agree with me though it does not shine upon treese and pretty flowers and bring to view the rich and varigated landscape cenary as at home yet to stand upon the ships deck and nothing but an immense circle of water around us as far as the eye can reach and the broad expansive heaven is above “blue above and blue below” till the sun makes a red spot in the east and puts the finishing touch to the picture No wonder the poet said. Welcome delightfull morn. Who could help it Who could help it on the Sabbath day Latt 34 about”

[askbensolo]

Asked Treeso if we could let Fannie stay over for a weekend.

“Sure. Is she cute?” he asked, grabbing a longfruit from the counter and slinging it into his knapsack as he passed by.

I snorted into my cup of caf. “I mean…shoot your shot bro, but she’s a Jedi.”

“Aw, dang,” he said. “Jedi are celibate, huh?”

“Well…not anymore. What I mean is, be careful ‘cause she could slice your hands off.”

Treeso leaned against the wall by the door to tie on his sandals. Most Gungans don’t wear shoes, but Treeso always said he hated how dirt felt between his toes. “Hey, I like my hands, Ben. I’ll leave her alone. She a human?”

“Twi’lek,” I answered, eyeing him suspiciously.

“What? You didn’t tell me that,” he said with a stupid grin. “Well…maybe I won’t leave her alone.”

“Oh, come on, dude.” I grabbed an apple from the counter and flung it at him. He caught it, laughing.

“Hey,” I called. “Treese. Remember that time in senior year? At the Life Day party? With Kailana? I am not saving your butt like that again, Treesie boy.”

Treeso laughed harder. “Dude. You were the best wingman of all time, Benny boy. I owe my life to you. For real for real.”

I gave a nod and raised my mug to him in salute. “My honor.”

He sighed a little, our college memories still lighting up his face as he paused at the door.

“…I’m gonna miss you, bro.”

It was a rare moment of authenticity from a chronic jokester. It was too serious—I had to lighten the mood.

“Aww, you’ll see me tonight, buddy,” I teased. The apple came hurtling back at me, and I caught it and put it back in the fruit bowl.

But I felt it too. He was a good friend. After graduation, everyone I knew left Naboo and scattered across the galaxy—but I still had Treeso with me. Treeso, who had gotten me into lifting and introduced me to the boys at the cantina and listened to me rant about school and work all the time. Treeso, who I died laughing with when we downloaded a bunch of mods and speedran Podracing Simulator till 3am on a random Sunday night. Treeso, who had the emotional intelligence of a rock, but who’d sat with me and cracked bad jokes while I broke down on the couch. He wouldn’t be far away, of course…but Otoh Gunga was just far enough.

“Well…I’ll see ya tonight then, Benny.”

“Hey. Treese,” I said. “We should make sure to hang out before you leave Theed. Paint the town red. Have one last misadventure. Don’t you dare leave without giving me one last chance to suffer your company.”

“But of course not, Solo.” He flourished a bow. “We’ll plan it out once we know when I’m making my grand exit.”

I grinned. “Alright. Now get outta here, slimeface. And make sure to lock the door this time, unless you’re gonna make me walk over there and do it for you again.”

“Okay, okay. Smell ya later, gundark ears!”

[party-slug]

theres supposed to be mountains behind those treese😟

[beardedmrbean]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip, paving the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18, despite the state attorney general’s concerns about some testimony and evidence.

Glossip can still plead his case for clemency to the five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, which could recommend that the governor spare Glossip’s life by commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole.

Glossip, now 60, has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his former boss, Barry Van Treese, who owned the Best Budget Inn where Glossip worked as the manager. The motel’s handyman, Justin Sneed, admitted robbing Van Treese and beating him to death with a baseball bat, but claims he did so only after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000 to do it.

Sneed, who ended up getting life in prison, was the key witness in two separate murder trials for Glossip, both of which ended in a conviction and death sentence.

Earlier this month, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond urged the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to throw out Glossip’s conviction because he says Sneed lied to the jury about his mental health and drug use. Drummond said in his filing that Sneed’s misstatements, when combined with other problems in the case including the destruction of evidence, warrant a new trial.

“This is not to say I believe (Glossip) is innocent,” Drummond said in a statement at the time. “Considering everything I know about this case, I do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness.”

Glossip has been scheduled for execution before and three separate times came within hours of being put to death.

One of his scheduled executions was halted in September 2015 when prison officials realized they had received the wrong lethal drug, a mix-up that helped prompt a nearly seven-year moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma.

Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” — took up his cause in real life. Prejean herself has served as Glossip’s spiritual adviser and frequently visited him in prison. His case also was featured in the 2017 documentary movie “Killing Richard Glossip.”

[cheerfullycatholic]

Richard Glossip is currently on death row in Oklahoma for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. However, there is evidence that Glossip did not commit the murder and was wrongfully convicted for the crime. Update - On January 9, 2023: An Oklahoma appellate court set Richard's execution date to May 18th, 2023. This is Richard Glossip's NINTH execution date. He has had THREE last meals. On April 20, 2023, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied his request for a new trial, stating “Glossip has exhausted every avenue and we have found no legal or factual ground which would require relief in this case.” Richard's clemency hearing is set for April 26, 2023. Some of the issues that support Richard's innocence claim include: There is no forensic evidence tying Glossip to the murder

Another person, Justin Sneed, admitted to the murder, and DNA ties him to the murder scene

Detectives failed to carry out a thorough investigation

Glossip's first attorney had no experience with a murder trial, and other subsequent attorneys failed to mount a reasonable defense

Prosecutors destroyed evidence and intimidated witnesses

and more Please sign the petition asking Governor Stitt and the Pardon and Parole Board to do everything within their power to ensure that Glossip does not face execution and to seek a path to clemency in the case.

[fanchlebu]

what do you think about the lorax 2012? did you like it?

Anon, you have opened a can of worms. I wrote more than 400 and that's still not all I wanted to say but it was getting long already. TL;DR in the last paragraph.

You must know I haven't been introduced to the Lorax as a child. I took interest in it in 2021 because I heard Biggering. Previously all I knew was something something oncest. Then I watched '72 version and read the original book (in this order). And after doing so I have decided to watch 2012 version as well.

It's not a terrible movie as far as children movies go. I believe I have some idea about animated American movies from the first half of 2010s and it's really not the worst. However it isn't good Lorax adaptation. It uses its runtime really non-efficiently. It has some good ideas but it's too scared to take them further. When you learn more about its concept art and deleted songs it starts physically hurt. So much wasted potential. We really could get a masterpiece.

While I may not take Lorax philosophy as my own I can understand it and see when it's underutilized. The environmental message falls flat. They make it about trees (all trees in the world) and it was never about trees. Once-ler says in '72 version something like "never in my life I have seen treese like these" (it may be not word for word I quote from memory). Truffula is not the only kind of tree in Lorax-verse. And more important it is a SYMBOL. What Once-ler does is symbolic. Once-ler and Lorax are themselves a symbols. Both older versions are great cautionary tales for children because they use symbols and allegories to express complex concepts in a simple manner. In 2012 version Once-ler and Lorax don't work as symbols.

I also don't like the direction they took with the Once-ler. Despite having a longer screentime he is still less complex than his '72 version (some people say ‘72 and book versions are identical but that's a lie. But it's a thing for another post). He's transformation into a villain is unrealistic and dumb. It only takes a length of how bad can I be. He destroys the environment because his family told him to do so. Struggling with own conscience? Thinking about what will happen to your workers, to the economy if you quit? Nah.

And I don't like his design. It's not even that he is a human. It's that stupid fedora and the fact he doesn’t age. He should! Then it wouldn't look like his company lasted for two years.

TL;DR: It's not the worst thing ever but I don’t like it. It misses the point of the original and has a lot of underused potential.

[caroloftheshells]

Re: indie rock/indie folk, which I cannot meaningfully distinguish between because I attended SUNY Purchase: Jenny Owen Youngs, Kiss Kiss, Langhorne Slim, Regina Spector, Joanna Newsom, and O’Death come to mind on the “folkier” end. On the “rockier” end: The National, Arcade Fire, Waxahatchee, Japanese Breakfast, Vampire Weekend. I enjoy a handful of records from a handful of these bands/artists and openly disdain others but for the most part characterize the “indie rock” that I prefer to listen to — louder, dumber, angrier, hornier — as “alternative rock.” I wouldn’t classify myself as a hater but I regard the labels with admittedly ungenerous suspicion.

As for indie classical: uhhh Max Richter? Jack Treese?? Zero real reference point here for what that means. I asked my husband and he went, “…like NPR shit?” LOL

this is super interesting! thanks for sharing!

i definitely find myself distinguishing between "indie" and "alt" as signifiers (both supposedly shorthand for "non mainstream") along the lines of "how obvious is the guitar distortion," which seems super specific and/or arbitrary but then so are many learned associations and it's interesting that this one is shared. i also feel like the music i associate with the terms in my op generally does not "do" anger in the way mainstream or even "alt" rock does anger as a primary or comfort-zone subject matter / affect, like you mentioned. this may also just be the word "indie" having a diminutive feel; idk; but it's interesting to note

"npr shit" is also evocative, lol. max richter absolutely checks the boxes of "classical crossover" and "new music" for me while somehow not being on my radar of what those things connote which is interesting! same deal with ólafur arnalds for example. for me "indie classical" brings to mind discourses on artists that are “rockier” & more bang on a can-ish, ie more self-consciously "not easy listening," but that's strictly from a u.s. perspective too and my own perception of it is maybe more about self-marketing than sound anyway. thanks!

[news4dzhozhar]

Shocking Parole Board Vote Clears Way for Richard Glossip’s Execution in Oklahoma

**One of the most maddening cases and a clear wrongful conviction but the state is out for blood. Its always sad to see a victims family be so oblivious to reality and still fight for something that even the AG doesn't belive is the truth. Watch the 2017 documentary “Killing Richard Glossip.**

Three weeks ago, Richard Glossip was contemplating a possible future outside prison walls. In an extraordinary move, the Oklahoma attorney general had filed a motion with the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals asking that Glossip’s conviction and death sentence be overturned. If granted, the request would send his case back to the district court for a new trial — or a plea deal. After more than two decades in prison for a crime he insists he did not commit, Glossip was imagining life with his wife in Oklahoma City.

But in a stunning rebuke, the court rejected the attorney general’s request, triggering the 35-day protocol that precedes an execution. Perhaps most critical: a hearing on April 26 before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, whose members are empowered to recommend clemency to the governor, serving as a final check against a wrongful execution.

There was every reason to expect the board would vote to spare Glossip’s life. Among the witnesses who appeared on Glossip’s behalf on Wednesday was Attorney General Gentner Drummond himself, along with prominent Oklahoma lawmakers who have come to believe in Glossip’s innocence.

Yet in another stunning reversal of fortune, the board voted to deny clemency. Barring intervention by the courts or Gov. Kevin Stitt, Glossip will be executed by lethal injection on May 18.

“It’s horrifying,” Don Knight, Glossip’s lead attorney, said. But “we’re not done, by a long shot.”

Glossip was twice tried and sentenced to death for the January 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese inside a seedy Best Budget Inn that Van Treese owned on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. No physical evidence linked Glossip, the motel’s 34-year-old live-in manager, to the crime. Instead, the case against him was built almost exclusively on the testimony of 19-year-old Justin Sneed, who worked as a handyman at the motel. Sneed admitted to bludgeoning Van Treese to death but claimed it was all Glossip’s idea. Prosecutors claimed Glossip killed Van Treese in a scheme to take over the low-rent motel and painted Sneed as a meek dolt who would do anything Glossip asked of him. In exchange for testifying against Glossip, Sneed avoided facing the death penalty and was sentenced to life without parole. Glossip has steadfastly maintained his innocence, and over the years, evidence of his wrongful conviction has steadily mounted.

Counter to the state’s fanciful narrative, the evidence supports Glossip’s contention that Sneed — a chronic drug user with a penchant for unpredictable bouts of violence — initially planned to rob Van Treese, killed him when the plan went sideways, and then later, during a highly suggestive police interrogation, named Glossip as the mastermind behind the crime. Witnesses who were ignored by police and prosecutors have since come forward with evidence that Sneed was cunning, manipulative, and quite capable of killing a man on his own.

Knight has spent nearly a decade investigating and presenting to the court new evidence that undercuts Glossip’s conviction. Still, at every turn, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has willfully ignored the myriad problems with the case — including prosecutorial misconduct and the state’s destruction of evidence. That same evidence, meanwhile, has led a contingent of conservative, pro-death penalty lawmakers to advocate on Glossip’s behalf over fears the state might execute an innocent man.

The State Got Away With It

The clemency hearing took place at the Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center, a women’s jail complex in Northeast Oklahoma City. The fluorescent-lit room was packed compared to most clemency hearings, with seven rows of chairs assigned to attendees in advance. As in all such proceedings, victims’ family members sat on one side of the room, alongside representatives of the state, while advocates for Glossip sat on the other. Unlike most hearings, both sections included current and former elected officials, most notably Drummond, who was there representing the state and advocating for clemency, the first time an Oklahoma attorney general has ever done so.

“If the defense would’ve destroyed that box of evidence, there would have been charges brought against them. But the state seemingly got away with it.”

Among the most conspicuous attendees was former Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater, whose office sent Glossip to death row. Before his retirement in January, Prater aggressively defended Glossip’s conviction, intimidating witnesses who came forward with new evidence in 2015 and accusing Glossip of waging a “bullshit PR campaign.” Prater also previously targeted the parole board for recommending clemency in other cases, accusing members of having an anti-death penalty bias. Wearing a dark pinstriped suit, an American flag pin, and a permanent scowl, Prater sat in the fifth row alongside prosecutors from other parts of the state. While he did not speak before the board, Prater shook his head as witnesses described the state’s destruction of evidence and other prosecutorial misconduct.

Each side had 40 minutes to present their case, followed by remarks by the Van Treese family and Glossip himself. A large digital clock faced the speakers, while TV monitors faced the board. One of the five board members, Richard Smothermon, was absent, having recused himself due to the fact that his wife was the prosecutor who sent Glossip to death row.

Knight told the board that Glossip grew up in a chaotic household where family members struggled with drug and alcohol abuse. Unlike a number of his 15 siblings, Glossip managed to avoid running afoul of the law, and after dropping out of school, he worked hard to build a quiet and successful life for himself. He became a manager at Domino’s Pizza before turning to management of a string of motels. “It may not seem like much, but for a guy with a seventh-grade education … it was pretty good,” Knight told the board. The idea that Glossip was scheming to take over the Best Budget Inn was inconceivable, Knight said. It was a fiction dreamed up by Sneed, “a man who now everyone, even the state, admits is a liar.”

“People rarely begin a life of crime at 34,” Knight went on. In contrast, Sneed had a long history of criminal behavior before he killed Van Treese at 19, including threatening to kill his middle school teacher. “The worst thing on Rich Glossip’s record? A traffic ticket.”

Republican state lawmakers described how they had come to believe in Glossip’s innocence. Each said he was skeptical at first; they didn’t believe that an innocent person could wind up on death row. But as they learned more about the case, and new evidence continued to emerge, they concluded that Glossip’s conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

Central to their conclusion was the work of law firm Reed Smith, which undertook a pro bono investigation into the case at the behest of a larger group of lawmakers led by Republican Rep. Kevin McDugle. Reed Smith spent more than a year on its investigation, interviewed more than 40 witnesses, and gathered records from multiple state agencies, producing five reports that paint the clearest picture yet of Glossip’s wrongful conviction. McDugle told the board that he asked the investigators to go where the facts took them. “I simply want them to find the truth in this case,” he said.

“In reading their findings, I was sickened that something like this could happen in the state of Oklahoma,” McDugle said. “Their investigation concluded that based on the complete record, old and new evidence, no reasonable jury hearing it all would have convicted Glossip of murder for hire.” McDugle was especially disturbed by the state’s destruction of a box of evidence before Glossip’s second trial in 2004, including the motel’s financial records and crime scene evidence that could have been tested for DNA. “If the defense would’ve destroyed that box of evidence, there would have been charges brought against them. But the state seemingly got away with it.”

Justin Jackson, a political ally of the governor’s, struck a more personal note. He said that he’d gotten to know Glossip during visits to death row at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Today he describes him as a friend and “brother in Christ.” “Rich has never wavered once in his claim of innocence,” Jackson said. He held up a painting of a hummingbird that Glossip made for Jackson’s mother, who was dying of cancer. Glossip said that for him, the hummingbird represented freedom from death row — but for Jackson’s mother, he hoped it would represent freedom from pain and suffering. When his mother died in 2020, Jackson said, “Rich had no way of knowing of my mom’s passing but by happenstance he called me later that morning. And he spent the next 30 minutes consoling me.”

An Unprecedented Hearing

When it was the state’s turn to present its case to the board, Drummond began by acknowledging each speaker, along with Van Treese’s loved ones. “I know that this has been an extremely difficult process for the family to endure.”

“I’m not aware of anytime in our history that an attorney general has appeared before this board and argued for clemency.”

“I want to acknowledge how unusual it is for the state to support a clemency application of a death row inmate,” Drummond said. “I’m not aware of anytime in our history that an attorney general has appeared before this board and argued for clemency. I’m also not aware of any time in the history of Oklahoma when justice would require it. Ultimately that is why we are here.” As the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Drummond said, it was his duty to consider “what justice is for the state of Oklahoma.” That’s what led him to finally release evidence that had never been turned over to Glossip’s legal team. It’s also what led him to launch an investigation of his own into the case.

Christina Vitale, a lawyer who was part of the Reed Smith investigation, presented a PowerPoint laying out critical new evidence that had come to light in the past year. This included multiple letters from Sneed to his attorney expressing a desire to recant his testimony against Glossip. It also included the contents of a box of evidence belonging to the district attorney’s office, which was turned over to investigators in January. The box contained prosecutors’ handwritten notes revealing that after Van Treese’s murder, Sneed had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium to manage it by a psychiatrist who evaluated him at the Oklahoma City Jail. At trial, Sneed denied that the evaluation ever took place.

Drummond had highlighted Sneed’s misstatements in his brief to the Court of Criminal Appeals seeking to vacate Glossip’s conviction. He argued that Sneed’s mental health disorder combined with his chronic drug use could have negatively affected “Sneed’s ability to properly recall key facts” at trial. “The state has reached the difficult conclusion that the conviction of Glossip was obtained with the benefit of material misstatements to the jury by its key witness,” Drummond wrote.

Sneed lying about his diagnosis and prosecutors’ failure to correct the record were key factors for Rex Duncan, a former prosecutor whom Drummond retained to conduct the second investigation of Glossip’s conviction. Duncan was the last witness for the state. “This is a first for me, to agree with the defense attorney that their client deserves clemency,” he said. After 600 hours spent reviewing the case, Duncan said, he concluded that “Richard Glossip did not receive a fair trial and the state of Oklahoma cannot stand behind his conviction. Further, the state of Oklahoma cannot stand behind an execution given what has been discovered.”

“If anybody deserved to be on death row, it’s Justin Sneed,” Duncan said. “Richard Glossip has been on death row for most of his adult life, has been served his last meal three times and been within minutes of execution. The state of Oklahoma can extract its pound of flesh from Richard Glossip, but I believe it has already extracted three pounds.”

Enough Is Enough

When it was time for the Van Treese family to speak, their message was clear: They wanted their ordeal to be over and felt betrayed by the state’s call for clemency. Donna Van Treese, Barry’s widow, echoed her testimony from Glossip’s 2014 clemency hearing, describing the impact of her husband’s murder and the lasting trauma for her children. “We do not feel justly represented today,” she told the board. Barry’s son, Derek Van Treese, decried the years of investigation and publicity that had made Glossip’s case famous. “This case has been pushed from being a legal matter to being a political issue; has been pushed from the court of law to the court of public opinion,” he said. “Enough is enough.”

“Today has been a travesty,” Van Treese’s sister, Alana Van Treese Mileto, said. While she acknowledged that Drummond’s concerns should be considered, “at the same time, this is so one-sided.” The state’s presentation “feels like a giant stab in the back, to be honest with you.”

Asked if Drummond’s office had contacted the family prior to the hearing, Donna Van Treese spoke indignantly of a phone conversation with the attorney general. Drummond told her that he believed Glossip was guilty, she said. In response, Drummond repeated what he had previously stated: His personal belief was that Glossip was guilty of “at least accessory after the fact” for his failure to tell detectives about statements Sneed made following the murder. “More likely than not he’s guilty of murder,” he said. “But I do not believe that the evidence presents that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” He maintained that the board should recommend clemency. “I believe it would be a grave injustice to allow the execution of a man whose trial was plagued by many errors.”

Glossip was given 20 minutes to speak on his own behalf. He spoke for less than three, appearing by Zoom from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He wore maroon prison scrubs, and his wrists were handcuffed together, making it difficult for him to raise his hand to be sworn in by the board chair. Glossip dabbed at his eyes with a tissue while delivering remarks he had prepared on sheets of white paper. He told the Van Treese family that he was sorry for everything they’d been through. And he thanked all the people who had supported him, including McDugle, Jackson, and Drummond.

His voice cracking with emotion, Glossip asked the board to grant him clemency. “I’m not a murderer, and I don’t deserve to die for this.”

Unlike Glossip’s previous clemency hearing in 2014, where board members challenged his account of what happened the day Barry Van Treese died, this time the board asked no questions. Instead, they announced a 10-minute break to deliberate.

After several hours of careful, comprehensive presentations by advocates for Glossip and representatives of the state laying out all the reasons that clemency should be granted, the end was shockingly abrupt. Board members quickly announced their votes: two votes for clemency, followed by two votes against. Under the rules of the Pardon and Parole Board, a tie is weighted in favor of the no votes, meaning the default is denying clemency and blessing an execution.

The Van Treese family cheered, cried, and hugged upon hearing the vote, gathering before a line of TV cameras. Everyone else filed out of the room.

Knight, Glossip’s lawyer, vowed to pursue every remaining avenue to save his client’s life. On Wednesday afternoon, he filed an unopposed stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also challenging the makeup of the board, arguing that the fifth board member, Smothermon, should have been replaced to avoid a tie that would result in a denial of clemency. Knight also plans to challenge the appellate court’s ruling dismissing Drummond’s request to vacate Glossip’s conviction. Finally, he said, he would ask the governor for a reprieve to allow the legal process to take its course, “because the execution of an innocent man would be an irreversible injustice.”

In the meantime, Glossip faces the torment of yet another execution countdown. As his wife, Lea, told the board, they have already undertaken the excruciating task of planning for his state-sanctioned murder: deciding who will attend the execution, what Glossip will choose for his final meal, and where he will be buried. “He is now on the brink of his ninth execution date, all for a crime that he did not commit,” she said. “This ordeal has been absolutely psychologically terrorizing.”

Leaving the hearing, McDugle called the outcome “ridiculous.” “Oklahoma’s got some systemic problems with the judicial system,” he said. “Any reasonable person who would have been in that room would have voted yes for clemency.” Although McDugle has always maintained that he supports capital punishment, he reiterated what he has previously said about the case: If Glossip’s execution is carried out, “I will fight against the death penalty in the state of Oklahoma.”

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