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An Update on the Linda Carty Case

By Steve Hall

"Government 'supports clemency bid'," is the UK Press Association item.The Government is prepared to do "anything that is necessary" to help a British grandmother who is on death row in Texas for killing a young mother.Linda Carty, 51, was convicted in 2002 over the abduction and murder of a 25-year-old woman after a trial which supporters say was "catastrophically flawed".The US Supreme Court decided in May not to review the case which means that Carty's legal options have been exhausted.But security minister Baroness Neville-Jones said on Thursday at question time in the House of Lords that the Government was doing everything it could to support her attempts to get clemency.She told peers that the Government had not ruled out taking the case to the International Court of Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).