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The Linda Carty Case

By Steve Hall

The United Kingdom's Press Association reports, "Plea to MPs over death row Briton," via Google News.The daughter of a British woman on death row in the US has pleaded with MPs to help prevent her mother's execution.Linda Carty, 51, could be given the lethal injection within months after the Supreme Court refused to review a murder conviction campaigners say resulted from a "catastrophically flawed" trial.Her daughter, Jovelle Carty Joubert, has flown into the UK from her home in Texas, as part of desperate efforts to rally support for the condemned woman, who has always protested her innocence.Over the next few days she will meet Foreign Office officials and MPs in a bid to rally support for her mother. But she has so far failed to secure a meeting with any Government ministers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).