Actors Colin Firth and Julie Christie have joined an impassioned plea to save the life of death row prisoner Linda Carty.
Carty, a UK citizen facing death within months in a Texas prison for the abduction and murder of a 25-year-old woman, counts several high-profile celebrities among her supporters. The actors joined authors Philip Pullman, Zadie Smith and Martina Cole in writing a letter to the Sunday Times.
The letter, organised by anti-death penalty group Reprieve, which slams the 2002 trial of the 51-year-old grandmother as 'catastrophically flawed', says: 'Now is the time to get very worried about Linda - and to support the government's Supreme Court appeal on her behalf. Linda would not be on death row if she had been able to afford a decent defence lawyer. '
It continues: 'The [British] government has told the Supreme Court that Texas's failure to notify it of her arrest prevented Linda from receiving desperately needed legal assistant from the British consulate - that would probably have saved her life.'
Reprieve will submit a video to the court along with document from the British goverment outlining its concern on Carty's behalf.
Carty, who faces execution by lethal injection, has always proclaimed her innocence.
Source: Monsters and Critics, March 1, 2010
Carty, a UK citizen facing death within months in a Texas prison for the abduction and murder of a 25-year-old woman, counts several high-profile celebrities among her supporters. The actors joined authors Philip Pullman, Zadie Smith and Martina Cole in writing a letter to the Sunday Times.
The letter, organised by anti-death penalty group Reprieve, which slams the 2002 trial of the 51-year-old grandmother as 'catastrophically flawed', says: 'Now is the time to get very worried about Linda - and to support the government's Supreme Court appeal on her behalf. Linda would not be on death row if she had been able to afford a decent defence lawyer. '
It continues: 'The [British] government has told the Supreme Court that Texas's failure to notify it of her arrest prevented Linda from receiving desperately needed legal assistant from the British consulate - that would probably have saved her life.'
Reprieve will submit a video to the court along with document from the British goverment outlining its concern on Carty's behalf.
Carty, who faces execution by lethal injection, has always proclaimed her innocence.
Source: Monsters and Critics, March 1, 2010
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