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London Art Project Focuses on Linda Carty

By Steve Hall

"Texas death row inmate appeals to Londoners," is Rafael Satter's AP report via Google News.Texas death row inmate Linda Carty's voice was broadcast into London's Trafalgar Square on Thursday, begging Britons to help save her life.Carty's seven-minute appeal, recorded this week in the Mountain View Unit women's prison outside Gatesville in Texas, was broadcast on loop over a stereo system mounted on an empty plinth at the corner of the 19th century plaza."I'm sorry if I sound like a desperate woman," the 50-year-old says in the broadcast, which was just barely audible on the busy square. "I am desperate, because the British people may be my last hope. If they ask for my life to be spared, maybe Texas will listen...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).