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More on Linda Carty

By Steve Hall

Clive Stafford Smith's OpEd, "The final act of Linda Carty's tragedy," is in the Guardian.  Stafford Smith is the director of Reprieve.All of this leads up to last week's final tragedy. The fifth circuit court of appeals turned down the penultimate appeal of British grandmother Linda Carty, which means she has only the supreme court and Governor Rick Perry between her and an encounter with the executioner.As to whether she should even have been convicted, the court found it a "close case", but the verdict was good enough for government work. An unfair trial is apparently OK, so long as it is not "fundamentally unfair." But the court had to indulge in greater contortions to justify Carty becoming the first black British woman to be executed in over a century...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).