Former death row inmate who Kim Kardashian fought to free pleads guilty to lesser charge

Richard Glossip, a former Oklahoma death row inmate whose case Kim Kardashian publicly supported, has pleaded guilty to being an accessory to first-degree murder. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge under a plea deal, ending the prospect of a new murder trial but leaving his sentence to be decided.

Glossip, 63, was sentenced to death in 1998 over the 1997 killing of motel owner Barry Van Treese; another man, Justin Sneed, admitted carrying out the fatal beating and received life without parole. The US Supreme Court overturned Glossip’s conviction in February 2025, and he was released on $500,000 bond in May, which Kardashian paid, while awaiting retrial. A two-day sentencing hearing is scheduled for 17 and 18 December.