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Ohio inmate claims innocence in slaying of 3, wants retrial
By lillooetnews.net- Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Published: 05/22/2018

COLUMBUS, Ohio — From the day of his arrest in 1994 for fatally shooting three people, Kevin Keith has proclaimed his innocence. He pointed to alibi witnesses who placed him elsewhere, an alternative suspect and a host of inconsistencies in the evidence against him.

Keith's arguments did not stop his conviction and death sentence for killing two women and a 4-year-old girl in what prosecutors said was retaliation for his arrest in a northern Ohio drug sweep. In 2010, then-Gov. Ted Strickland commuted Keith's sentence to life without parole, citing questions about the evidence and a "troubling" failure to investigate other suspects.

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