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February 27, 2010The US Supreme Court must order a retrial for the Briton who stands on death rowFriends must sometimes agree to disagree. Britain forbids capital punishment; the United States supports it. But above all, good friends must honour their word. An Anglo-American agreement requires Britain to notify the US if it takes legal action against an American citizen, and for the US to do the same if a Briton is to stand trial in America.So the case of Linda Carty ? who was born in St Kitts, which qualifies her as a British citizen ? is especially galling. Carty now waits on death row in Texas. In a last attempt to avoid her becoming the first black British woman to be executed in more than a century, the British Government has now presented an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court urging it to reconsider the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).