Reprieve's Mother's Day plea for woman facing death penalty
Sunday 14 March 2010
Printable
EmailHuman rights campaign group Reprieve have marked Mother's Day by releasing an urgent video appeal for death row grandmother Linda Carty.
Ms Carty was sentenced to death in February 2002 by a Texan court for the murder of Joana Rodriguez, who was seized alongside her four-day-old son by three men on May 16 2001.
The baby was later found unharmed in a car, but Ms Rodriguez was killed.
Prosecutors claimed that the men were hired by Ms Carty who, unable to get pregnant herself, intended to "cut the baby out" of the woman and pass it off as her own.
But Ms Carty has always maintained that she was framed by the men who carried out the abduction due to her earlier work as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Reprieve executive director Clare Algar said: "Linda is much beloved by her mother, daughter and grandchildren and they are horrified by the prospect of her execution this summer."
The film can be viewed on YouTube at http://tiny.cc/0CM9I
If you have enjoyed this article then please consider donating to the Morning Star's Fighting Fund to ensure we can keep publishing your paper.
Editorial
Ghouls get their way
British politicians who demanded that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi die more quickly to fall in line with Scottish doctors' assessment of his life expectancy can finally relax.
Features
Attack of the drones
The immoral and irresponsible use of unmanned aerial assault vehicles
Riches for some, pain for the rest of us
The dire statistics underpinning EU attempts to rein in the recession