Ken Richey given three-year term for threatening judge who prosecuted in original trial that led to 21 years in Ohio prison
A Scottish man released from prison after spending two decades on Ohio's death row is heading back to prison.
Ken Richey was sentenced on Monday to three years for threatening a judge who prosecuted his original case.
Richey pleaded guilty to a felony retaliation charge last month. He admitted he had been drinking heavily before he left a threatening phone message from his Mississippi home last New Year's Eve.
Richey was on death row for 21 years after being convicted of starting a fire that killed a two-year-old girl in 1986.
A US court determined his lawyers mishandled the case, and he was set free in 2008 under a plea deal.
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