SUPREME COURT

Conviction upheld in 1986 arson death
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WASHINGTON - Kenneth Richey, the dual U.S.-British citizen convicted in the arson murder of a 2-year-old girl in Columbus Grove, Ohio, was rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in his second attempt to avoid a death sentence.

Sunday, January 8, 2006

Hello to everyone out there, and I also would like to thank each and everyone of you that has been supportive of me and my wife in this difficult time we have yet survived once again.

I do not believe that either of us, my wife or I would have been able to survive all this pressure we had to deal with if it was not for all of you out there who have been so wonderful, and so gracious to us in our time of need, and I thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of my heart.

By Kate Randall
17 January 2006

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California death row inmate Clarence Ray Allen was put to death just after midnight Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison. His execution by lethal injection went ahead after Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his clemency bid. He was the 14th person put to death in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, and the second person to be executed in little more than a month.

RENOWNED US anti-death penalty campaigner and author Sister Helen Prejean has spoken out about the plight of death row Scot Kenny Richey for the first time. Sister Helen, who wrote the book Dead Man Walking and was portrayed in the film adaptation by Susan Sarandon, has long been a supporter of the campaign to free Richey, who has served 19 years on death row.

By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor

A HOST of leading Scottish actors and literary figures - including Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh - are collaborating on the production of a controversial play about death row Scot Kenny Richey.

The dramatisation of Richey's conviction for the murder of a two-year-old girl in Ohio in 1986 has already attracted actor David Hayman, of ITV's Trial And Retribution series, and River City stars Tam Dean Burn and Carmen Pieraccini.