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By David Edwards

KAREN Torley shook uncontrollably as the prison door slammed shut behind her.

Sitting in the booth next to her, a man wept openly as he begged his son not to give up hope. To her left, a woman told her brother how the lawyers were doing everything to get him off Death Row.

But Karen had travelled from Glasgow not to comfort a son or brother but to meet her fiance, convicted murderer Kenny Richey, for the first time.

May 1999

by Isa Hermsen-Weiland

Two international activists spoke Thursday, May 6 to educate Oberlin about the case of Kenny Richey, an Ohio death row inmate. Karen Torley, from Richey's native Scotland, leads the international campaign to free him along with Paddy Hill, who has dedicated his life to speaking for the release of innocent people from incarceration.

Hill and five others, called the Birmingham Six, were convicted of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing and spent 17 years in British jails before being found innocent. Torley and Hill spoke at Oberlin and spent the remainder of the week speaking around the state.

Watford mayor signs petition to save death row inmate

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WATFORD Mayor Dorothy Thornhill signed a petition at the Rainbow Festival last week to save a man on death row in America.

The petition was set up by the Watford Amnesty Group who had a stall at last Sunday's festival.

February 29, 2004

Barbaric Conditions on Ohio's Death Row

Amnesty International representatives paid a visit to Kenny Richey, the Scottish citizen who has been on Ohio's death row for the past 17 years. They say he is "treated like a rabid animal."