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Bianca Jagger on the Linda Carty Case

By Steve Hall

She posts, "A Case for the Supreme Court," at Huffington Post, today.Linda Carty, a British citizen, faces the death penalty by lethal injection later this year, unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear her case. As with so many other death penalty convictions, Linda's case was fraught with errors and is an egregious miscarriage of justice.For nearly three decades I have campaigned for justice and human rights throughout the world. During that period I have witnessed the State machinery of death at work, selectively killing people because they are poor, members of a minority and cannot afford adequate legal counsel. The death penalty is unfair, arbitrary and capricious, often based on jurisprudence fraught with racial discrimination and judicial bias...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).