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Supreme Court Rejects Review of Linda Carty Case

By Steve Hall

"Supreme Court rejects plea from British woman on death row," is the title of Renee Lee's report in the Houston Chronicle.The Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a British woman sentenced to death for killing a Houston mother and stealing her baby in 2001.The justices rejected an appeal from Linda Carty, who complained her trial lawyers were deficient. And:It is rare for women to get the death penalty in the United States and even rarer for them to be put death. Fifty-four women are on death row and in the modern era (1973 to 2009) of the death penalty, only 11 women have been executed.Part of the reason is that few women commit capital offenses, but Ohio Northern University law professor Victor Streib, who has studied women and death penalty for 25 years, suggests there's a secondary reason...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).