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Linda Carty faces execution after losing appeal

Linda Carty, a British citizen on Death Row in Texas, USA, could be executed within months after having her September 2009 appeal rejected. She only now has recourse to a Supreme Court Appeal. The Fifth Circuit court in New Orleans conceded that Carty received an inadequate defence at her murder trial in 2002 but refused to reverse the jury?s decision.She was convicted in 2002 for killing a woman in the USA as part of a plot to kidnap the victim?s baby. She is held on death row in Texas, the only British woman awaiting execution in George Bush?s home state. She has always denied the charges.Carty has made pleas to Gordon Brown and the British public to intervene and help save her life.Linda now has new lawyers, led by Clive Stafford Smith, the British death row attorney based in New Orleans...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on January 02, 2010 (boomark / email).