Editorial: Bureaucracy of death may snag condemned Oklahoma man, guilty or not

Gentner Drummond isn’t one of those supposedly soft-on-crime, George Soros-supported prosecutors about whom conservative commentators and politicians like to complain. He’s Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general and a supporter of the death penalty.

So it’s a big deal that he called for clemency for Richard Glossip, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 18.

Several prominent Oklahoma Republican lawmakers have likewise argued for Glossip,