Death row Scot hospitalised hours before release

A SCOTTISH man who spent 20 years on death row before his sentence was overturned was hospitalised yesterday, just hours before he planned to enter a plea that would have freed him.

Ken Richey, 43, had been expected to plead no contest in a court hearing yesterday and be sentenced to time already served in the 1986 death in Ohio of a toddler in an apartment fire.

His attorney, Ken Parsigian, said Richey was getting a heart catheter but he was unsure what his client’s medical condition was.