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Linda Carty

By Steve Hall

The UK's Independent reports, "British citizen on Death Row in Texas launches 'last chance' appeal."  It's written by Tom Leonard.Carty, 51, a grandmother from the Caribbean island of St Kitts, was sentenced to death for the murder in 2001 of a young mother whose baby she was allegedly trying to steal after what her British legal team describes as a "catastrophically flawed" trial.However, they said judges have refused to hear new evidence that the conviction was unsafe and that Carty is innocent.If her lawyers fail to to persuade judges in New Orleans's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, all that stands between Carty and death by lethal injection is the US Supreme Court, which only hears a small number of cases every year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).