It is with great joy that Socialist Action is announcing that former Ohio death row inmate Kenny Richey has been freed from prison, and allowed to fly back to his home in Scotland.
Richey was convicted in 1987 of an arson attack on a block of apartment in an Ohio town, in which two-year-old Cynthia Collins died. During this whole time though Richey has maintained his innocence.
After his release, Richey thanked all those who "never doubted my innocence" and said he was looking forward to going home to Scotland - which he left when he was 18 to live with his father in the States.
During his 20-year incarceration, grave doubts arose about the entirely circumstantial evidence that convicted Richey, particularly the forensic evidence, which led to a growing campaign for a re-examination of the evidence. Described by Amnesty International as "one of the most compelling cases of apparent innocence that human rights campaigners have ever seen", Richey's case had become something of a cause célèbre in the United Kingdom.
For more information about Kenny Richey's case you can read these articles by Rebecca Doran that previously ran in Socialist Action newspaper.
http://www.socialistaction.org/feb05_3.htm
http://www.geocities.com/mnsocialist/richey.html
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