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An Update on the Linda Carty Case

By Steve Hall

"Replica prison cell highlights Briton's death row plight," is the UK Press Association report, via Google News.A life-size death row cell will be opened to the public in central London to highlight the plight of death row Briton Linda Carty, campaigners have said.Carty, 51, could be given the lethal injection within weeks after the US Supreme Court refused to review a murder conviction campaigners say resulted from a "catastrophically flawed" trial.Clive Stafford Smith, director of legal action charity Reprieve, said: "Linda faces execution very soon now."There is no lonelier place than a death row cell, and no greater power imbalance than that between a condemned prisoner and the government that wants to kill them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).