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Briton on death row in Texas seeks stay from Supreme Court

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles TimesMay 3, 2010When British consular officials in Houston first learned that Linda Carty was in trouble with the law, the St. Kitts-born British national was already on death row in Texas, convicted in a bizarre plot to kill a neighbor and kidnap her newborn son.Under the Vienna Convention and a U.S.-British treaty, British authorities should have been notified of Carty's arrest "without delay." The time gap in notification is at the center of an appeal by Carty for a stay of execution, which the Supreme Court may rule on as soon as Monday.If the court does not grant the stay, Carty, 51, stands to become the first British woman executed in 55 years.Carty's case is well known in Britain, where capital punishment is outlawed...continue to full post

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