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"Face-to-face with death row inmates at London show," is the title of Julie Mollins' Reuters report.Death row inmates depicted in oil paintings by British artist Claire Phillips, on view in London's South Bank gallery@oxo, have one thing in common. "All are demonstrably innocent, or very probably innocent," according to Clive Stafford Smith, director of prisoners' rights organization Reprieve, which sponsors the touring five-day "Human Face of Death Row" exhibit on show at Oxo until July 5. "They are very powerless people who face an incredible distillation of hatred resulting in society wanting them dead." Among the paintings of three current inmates is Briton Linda Carty, who has been on death row in Texas for eight years for murdering a neighbor...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).