Condemned Texas inmate Linda Carty has lost a federal appeal, moving her closer to execution over the abduction and death of a woman whose child she also had snatched in Houston in 2001.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling late Thursday, rejected arguments from the 50-year-old Carty that her trial lawyers were deficient and that she still had appeals issues she should be able to raise in state courts.
Carty is 1 of 10 women on death row in Texas. She is a former teacher from St. Kitts in the British Virgin Islands, where she was born, making her a British citizen.
Just last week, a taped voice recording of Carty begging Britons to help save her life was broadcast into London's Trafalgar Square.
Source: Associated Press, Sept. 19, 2009
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling late Thursday, rejected arguments from the 50-year-old Carty that her trial lawyers were deficient and that she still had appeals issues she should be able to raise in state courts.
Carty is 1 of 10 women on death row in Texas. She is a former teacher from St. Kitts in the British Virgin Islands, where she was born, making her a British citizen.
Just last week, a taped voice recording of Carty begging Britons to help save her life was broadcast into London's Trafalgar Square.
Source: Associated Press, Sept. 19, 2009
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