UNITED KINGDOM. BATTLE CONTINUES TO SAVE DEATH PENALTY BRITON

Karen Torley, the fiancée of British national Kenny Richey who faced the death penalty in the US state of Ohio, said campaigners would have to wait at least 18 months before there was any chance of his release.
Richey, 41, was due to be executed over the killing of a child in a fire in Ohio in 1986. He was to mark 19 years on death row on January 27, 2006.
Speaking before a London meeting of female anti-death penalty campaigners organised by Amnesty International UK, Ms Torley said that the last year had been “the best and worst.”
She said: “We will have to wait for at least a year and a half for any chance of his freedom. Kenny is caught in a wrangle over power between two courts. It hasn't got anything to do with evidence for the case.
“This past year started off as the best time with the decision to overturn his conviction, but as it dragged on and the Supreme Court over ruled that decision, it became the worst.'' Ms Torley, 42, added: “The November decision was a kick in the guts, a severe blow. Kenny has tried to remain positive but he has had his hopes dashed so many times. Where he is, hope can be a dangerous thing.”
Richey, an Edinburgh-born Scot, was on the verge of freedom in 2005 after the six US Circuit Appeal Court overturned his conviction and death sentence.
But he remained on death row after the US Supreme Court ordered the lower court to reconsider its decision in November.