Crime Documentary - Kenneth T. Richey

Kenneth (‘Kenny’) T. Richey (born August 3, 1964 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a UK-US dual citizen, born to a Scottish mother and American father, who was raised in Scotland but moved to Ohio to join his father in late 1982. He has been on death row for 20 years in Ohio, USA, after being convicted in 1987 of murdering two year-old Cynthia Collins by arson in 1986. On August 10, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld its previous ruling that overturned Richey’s conviction following the prosecution’s appeal of that ruling to the United States Supreme Court on a legal technicality concerning the common law theory of transferred intent. The ruling means that Richey must be re-tried within 90 days or released. Grave doubts about the entirely circumstantial evidence that convicted Richey, particularly the forensic evidence, led to widespread calls 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 has become something of a cause célèbre in the United Kingdom.