The celebrated British-American human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, gave a guest lecture to Strathclyde & GGSL students on Wednesday 31st March.

Clive has represented more than 300 prisoners on death row in the southern states of the US; and was featured in the award winning BBC documentary Fourteen Days In May.

His fingerprints didn't fit. His blood type didn't match. The bite marks belonged to another man. But 26 years after seven elderly women were savagely murdered in Columbus, Georgia, Carlton Gary is still on death row. David Rose investigates the strange case of the stocking strangler

Sunday June 13, 2004
The Observer

Ministers have been urged to intervene in the case of a Death Row Briton, who has received a setback in his appeal against his sentence.

Kenny Richey is waiting on an appeal decision from the Sixth Circuit Federal Court, his last hope unless the US Supreme Court agrees to hear his case. However, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to consider a point of law which had been referred to it and sent the case back to the federal court.

MERIT DECISIONS WITHOUT OPINIONS

2004-0572.  Richey v. Mitchell.

Certified Question of State Law, No. 013477. On review of preliminary memoranda, motion for admission pro hac vice of Paul E. Nemser by Georgia Elizabeth Yanchar, motion for admission pro hac vice of Daryl L. Wiesen by Georgia Elizabeth Yanchar, and motion for admission pro hac vice of Kenneth J. Parsigian by Georgia Elizabeth Yanchar.  The court declines to answer the certified questions.  This cause is therefore dismissed.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton and O?Connor, JJ., concur.

O?Donnell, J., dissents.

The motions for admission pro hac vice are granted.

"Whenever any American life is taken
by another American unnecessarily,
whether it is done in the name of the
law or in defiance of law,
the whole nation is degraded."
--- Robert Kennedy