Reprieve—Linda Carty's case history

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'I can never hug my grandsons'

By Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian, 28/04/2012

28 April 2012
Save Linda Carty - please help

British grandmother Linda Carty was wrongfully sentenced to death by a Texan court and is now dangerously close to execution.

28 November 2011
New film on British death row grandmother Linda Carty

The catastrophic case of Linda Carty, a British grandmother now facing imminent execution in Texas, is to be featured in a new television documentary film at 8pm on Monday 28th November on the UK's Channel 4.

21 November 2011
Send a book to Linda Carty in Texas

Linda Carty is a British grandmother facing execution. She loves to read and was very pleased to receive books from Reprieve supporters when we posted a request on our website earlier this year. Here is her current 'wish list'.

15 September 2011
Lush Fest 2011

Lush staged their first ever Festival last week in Dorset, England, inviting their employees, Reprieve and other charities to promote key issues surrounding human rights and fair trials around the world. Reprieve took the opportunity to use the replica death row cell we once placed in the courtyard at St. Martin-in-the-Fields to highlight the case of British grandmother Linda Carty, currently facing execution in Texas.

04 July 2011
Send a book to Linda Carty in Texas

Linda is a British grandmother facing execution in Texas. She loves to read and was very pleased to receive books from Reprieve supporters when we posted a 'wish list' on our website earlier this year.

17 March 2011
Watch: Chantez Amazing Grace pour Linda Carty

Linda Carty est une grand-mère britannique qui fait face à une exécution imminente au Texas. Elle a toujours maintenu son innocence. Très religieuse, Linda chante Amazing Grace dans le couloir de la mort, afin de mieux affronter la perspective de son exécution. Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir participer à notre campagne "Chanter Amazing Grace pour Linda Carty", afin de manifester votre soutien à Linda et demander à l’État du Texas de lui accorder la grâce.

10 December 2010
British grandmother Linda Carty on death row for kidnap and murder

by Heidi Blake, The Telegraph, 07/12/2010

07 December 2010
Watch Linda Carty's video message to Reprieve

Watch British grandmother Linda Carty, now facing imminent execution in Texas.

07 December 2010
Linda Carty: The British woman whose execution is just a phone call away

by Guy Adams, The Independent, 06/12/2010

06 December 2010
Linda Carty talks from death row about her faith

On World Day against the Death Penalty, Linda Carty talks from death row to Prospect Magazine about her faith.

10 October 2010
Watch Linda Carty on BBC Newsnight

BBC journalist Peter Marshall reports from Texas on Linda Carty's case

23 September 2010
Watch: Campaigners Fight for Death Row Briton

Watch the Al-Jazeera English coverage of the launch of Death's Waiting Room

20 September 2010
US justice rapped over death penalties

Press TV, 20/09/2010

20 September 2010
Death’s Waiting Room a great success

Over 600 clemency letters signed, over 4,000 names added to the petition, 50 personal letters written to Linda and dozens of cupcakes baked by dedicated supporters and consumed by hungry volunteers...

13 September 2010
Listen to Tineke Harris talking about Death's Waiting Room

Reprieve's deputy Death Penalty Director talks about Linda Carty's life-size death row prison cell in Trafalgar Square, and about Reprieve's work.

08 September 2010
Bianca Jagger in Death's Waiting Room

Bianca Jagger appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to help prevent the execution of British grandmother Linda Carty.

07 September 2010
Letter from Bianca Jagger to Prime Minister David Cameron about Linda Carty

A letter from Bianca Jagger to Prime Minister David Cameron about Linda Carty.

07 September 2010
Britain's rough sleepers deserve a stay of execution this winter

While Linda Carty dreams of breaking out of her cell, on Wednesday someone broke in to stay the night.

31 August 2010
Watch a short film of the launch of Death's Waiting Room

Includes footage of Anna Chancellor reading Linda's speech.

31 August 2010
Watch a video of the launch of Death's Waiting Room

Kindly made for us by a supporter, the video includes footage of Aruba Red's performance from the cell.

18 August 2010
Death's Waiting Room at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Reprieve has placed a life-size replica of the death row cell of Linda Carty, who is now facing imminent execution in Texas, in the courtyard of St-Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square.

16 August 2010
Last hope for Death Row woman

Jamaica Observer, 13/08/2010

13 August 2010
Death row Briton 'cannot give up hope of being free'

The Press Association, 12/08/2010

12 August 2010
Death’s Waiting Room opens today at 1pm at Trafalgar Square; first ‘prisoners’ include actress Anna Chancellor, who will read a speech from Linda Carty to London

A life-size death row cell replicating the real cell of British grandmother Linda Carty, now facing imminent execution in Texas, opens today in London.

12 August 2010
Death's Waiting Room at St-Martin-in-the-Fields

Londonist, 11/08/2010

11 August 2010
Death row cell for Trafalgar Square

Politics.co.uk, 10/08/2010

10 August 2010
Death's Waiting Room: launch 1pm today

Reprieve announces the launch of Death’s Waiting Room, a life-size death row cell outside St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, at 1pm Thursday 12th August.

10 August 2010
Clive Stafford Smith takes over Litweeter

Clive will be online tomorrow afternoon to respond to your questions and comments and talk about Linda Carty.

12 July 2010
Help for Linda Carty unlikely to come from International Court of Justice

On Thursday 8th July, Lord Faulkner asked the government in the House of Lords what representations had been made to US authorities about reprieving Linda Carty.

09 July 2010
Death Penalty: Please sing Amazing Grace for Linda Carty

Amazing Grace is the song Linda sings on death row, whenever she feels anxious or low. Please sing Amazing Grace to show your support for Linda, and to ask the State of Texas to spare her life.

06 July 2010
Send a book to Linda Carty

Linda Carty is an avid reader and has sent as a list of books she would like to read, so we've published the list below in case any of our supporters would like to send her one.

05 July 2010
Watch Linda Carty's daughter Jovelle speak in Parliament

Jovelle Carty Joubert advocates for her mother during last week's trip to London.

17 June 2010
Listen to Jovelle Carty Joubert speak on Woman's Hour

Linda Carty's daughter talks about her mother's case and what it's been like growing up without her mum.

09 June 2010
Linda Carty faces execution in Texas within months

by Amelia Hill, The Guardian, 08/06/2010

08 June 2010
PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED: Jovelle Carty Joubert, Linda Carty's daughter, will speak about her mother’s impending execution

Jovelle is in London for an emergency meeting with the British government following the US Supreme Court’s recent refusal to re-open her mother’s case.

07 June 2010
Suffolk village asks the Governor of Texas to spare the life of British grandmother Linda Carty in honour of historic wartime friendship

Villagers in Horham, Suffolk have recorded an unusual video request to Texas Governor Rick Perry, seeking clemency for British grandmother Linda Carty.

05 June 2010
What's the mood in England?

by Pete Samson, The Sun, 28/05/2010

28 May 2010
Reprieve's Director Clive Stafford Smith to speak in Horham, Suffolk, this Friday at 2pm

Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith OBE will speak at the Old School, Horham in Suffolk at 2pm on Friday 28th May, about his work on death row and Guantanamo Bay.

26 May 2010
New York Times analyses Guerinot's record in capital cases

In an article for New York Times, Adam Liptak looks at Jerry Guerinot's record in capital cases.

18 May 2010
Condemned British woman in US loses appeal

by Michael Graczyk, The Associated Press, 04/05/10

06 May 2010
US Supreme Court refuses to review case of British grandmother on death row

by The Telegraph, 03/05/10

06 May 2010
Listen to Linda Carty's daughter Jovelle interviewed on BBC Today programme

Jovelle Joubert talks about her mother's impending execution after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal.

06 May 2010
Fight continues for death row woman

by The Press Association, 05/05/10

05 May 2010
Supreme Court denies Briton's death penalty appeal

by Carol Williams, The Los Angeles Times, 04/05/2010

04 May 2010
Death row Briton loses US appeal

by Lewis Smith, The Independent, 04/05/10

04 May 2010
Death row Briton Linda Carty loses US appeal

by BBC News, 03/05/10

04 May 2010
US Supreme Court refuses to hear case of Linda Carty, British grandmother facing execution in Texas

Reprieve is deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court decision not to consider the disastrous case of Linda Carty, a British grandmother facing imminent execution thanks to a flawed trial in Texas.

03 May 2010
Supreme Court rejects plea from British woman on death row

by Renee C. Lee, The Houston Chronicle, 03/05/10

03 May 2010
Death Row Gran Faces 'Imminent Execution

by Carol Erskine, Sky News, 03/05/10

03 May 2010
Reprieve Spring Newsletter 2010: Huge public support for Linda Carty

The increasingly desperate case of Reprieve client Linda Carty is gaining more and more attention in the media and online.

20 April 2010
Government death row pleas 'ignored by Texas

by Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 12/04/10

13 April 2010
Texas refuses to admit error in preventing the UK from helping British grandmother Linda Carty; ignores British government allegations in defiant argument to Supreme Court

In a bullish reply to the US Supreme Court, the State of Texas has ignored the British government’s dramatic claim that had they been allowed to assist their citizen Linda Carty, she may not be facing execution today.

12 April 2010
Please America, don't execute Linda Carty

British citizens send an urgent video message to the United States.

09 April 2010
Death Row Briton Linda Carty talks about her controversial conviction and how she is paying for someone else's crime

by David Rose, The Daily Mail, 04/04/10

06 April 2010
Courageous Texan judge declares death penalty unconstitutional

A Texas judge in a county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the nation has done the unspeakable.

24 March 2010
Reprieve's Mother's Day plea for woman facing death penalty

by Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 14/03/10

16 March 2010
Bianca Jagger releases urgent video appeal asking mothers of the world to join the fight to save Linda Carty’s life this Mothers’ Day.

The Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation has made an urgent Mother’s Day appeal to save British grandmother Linda Carty from execution this summer.

15 March 2010
Remember the 'mother-in-law rule' for Linda Carty

Clive Stafford Smith on why we should spare a thought for Linda Carty this Mother's Day.

13 March 2010
Watch Bianca Jagger asks mothers of the world to help save Linda Carty, British grandmother facing execution, this Mothers' Day

The Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation has made an urgent appeal for Linda Carty.

13 March 2010
Spare a thought for Linda Carty this Mothers day

It has been over eight years since Linda Carty has embraced her Mother or Daughter.

12 March 2010
Facing imminent death

by Paddy McGuffin, The Morning Star, 10/03/10

12 March 2010
Nine inspirational women join fight for Linda Carty; video appeal released for International Women’s Day

Nine high-profile British women today joined the fight to save British grandmother Linda Carty from execution, releasing the film ‘I Support the Fight. I Support Linda Carty.’ for International Women’s Day.

08 March 2010
Watch: I Support This Fight. I Support Linda Carty.

Ten inspirational British women stand up for Linda Carty on International Women's Day.

08 March 2010
Watch ITV NEWS: Bestselling crime author Martina Cole joins campaign to save Linda Carty from execution

Bestselling crime author Martina Cole joins campaign to save Linda Carty from execution.

03 March 2010
Colin Firth and Julie Christie back Linda Carty death row campaign

by The Telgraph, 01/03/10

02 March 2010
Reprieve launches Supreme Court Appeal to save British Grandmother Linda Carty

Linda Carty, a 51 year old British national will be executed by the state of Texas within the next few months unless her appeal to the Supreme Court for a retrial is successful.

01 March 2010
Open letter to the Sunday Times: Linda Carty

The Christmas execution of Akmal Shaikh in China prompted many to ask why more was not done earlier to prevent it. This week the British government is fighting to save the life of another British citizen: Linda Carty in Texas.

01 March 2010
Death row: the last hope

by Alex Hannaford, The Guardian, 28/02/10

01 March 2010
Death-row inmate Linda Carty launches last-chance appeal to US Supreme Court

by Giles Whittell, The Times, 27/02/10

01 March 2010
Actors support death row Briton

by the Press Association, 28/02/10

01 March 2010
Death row Briton Linda Carty pleas to US Supreme Court

by BBC News, 26/02/10

26 February 2010
Death row Brit's last-ditch appeal

by The Press Association, 26/02/10

26 February 2010
PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED:

Death row grandmother Linda Carty files last-ditch ‘video plea’ to the US Supreme Court tomorrow; best-selling crime writer Martina Cole joins British government in fight to prevent summer execution.

25 February 2010
Please help save Linda Carty, a British Grandmother on death row in Texas.

Linda is sitting behind a glass screen on Death Row in Gatesville, Texas waiting to meet me. For a woman who has spent eight years in a condemned cell waiting to die she seems remarkably cheerful.

24 February 2010
The trouble with Jerry

Linda Carty has been described as the unluckiest woman on death row. Why? Because of her state-appointed attorney Jerry Guerinot.

22 February 2010
British grandmother Linda Carty makes desperate final appeal to US Supreme Court in Washington DC

British grandmother Linda Carty makes desperate final appeal to US Supreme Court in Washington DC; earlier courts have refused to hear new evidence showing her conviction is unsafe

29 January 2010
Watch: Linda Carty speaks to Trafalgar Square

Linda Carty pleads for her life from the Fourth Plinth.

19 October 2009
Death in Texas

by Andrew Wander, Al Jazeera English, 18/10/09

18 October 2009
Watch Clare Algar speak to Clive Anderson about Linda Carty

A discussion of Linda Carty's speech from the Fourth Plinth.

02 October 2009
Send a birthday card to Linda Carty

Please send a birthday to Linda Carty, the British grandmother on death row in Texas

01 October 2009
A visit with Linda Carty

British barrister Hugh Southey visits Linda on death row in Texas.

30 September 2009
Watch Save Linda Carty: vlog 1

As Linda loses her appeal, Reprieve begins the fight to prevent her execution.

22 September 2009
Linda Carty’s appeal rejected by US court; now close to execution

The Fifth Circuit court in New Orleans conceded that Linda received inadequate defence at her trial, but refused to reverse the jury’s decision to execute her.

18 September 2009
My week as a Reprieve volunteer

I’ve spent a really fascinating and inspiring week volunteering at Reprieve.

14 September 2009
Urgent appeal for Linda Carty

Time is running out for British grandmother Linda Carty who is on death row in Texas: we need extra funds to help us fight for her in these last crucial months.

10 September 2009
Read the transcript of Linda Carty's speech to Trafalgar Square

Recorded this week in Mountain View Unit, the prison where Linda Carty is being held on death row, this speech will be broadcast on a loop in Trafalgar Square at 10am this morning. Linda tells her story and pleads with the British people to help save her life. You can also listen to the speech.

10 September 2009
Listen to Linda Carty's speech from Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth

Recorded this week in Mountain View Unit, the prison where Linda Carty is being held, this speech will be broadcast in Trafalgar Square at 10am this morning. Linda tells her story and pleads with the British people to help save her life.

10 September 2009
Death row grandmother 'speaks' in Trafalgar Square

British grandmother Linda Carty will be making a bizarre appearance on Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square at 10am on Thursday 10th September.

10 September 2009
Linda Carty speaks from Fourth Plinth

At 10am on Thursday 10th September, British grandmother Linda Carty, who is on death row in Texas, will be making a bizarre appearance on Antony Gormley’s living monument, The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

07 September 2009
Lawyers fight for Linda Carty's life in New Orleans

Reprieve volunteer Lizzie O'Shea attends a hearing on Linda Carty's 'last chance' appeal in the New Orleans Fifth Circuit court.

04 September 2009
British citizen on Death Row in Texas launches 'last chance' appeal

by Tom Leonard, The Telegraph, 03/09/09

03 September 2009
British grandmother in appeal to escape death row

by Robert Verkaik, The Independent, 03/09/09

03 September 2009
Linda Carty to appeal in the Fifth Circuit Court tomorrow

British grandmother Linda Carty faces 'last chance' appeal against her execution in US court tomorrow; judges refuse to hear new evidence showing her conviction is unsafe.

02 September 2009
The Government goes to bat for Linda Carty, the British woman on death row in Texas

This week the British Government filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in the case of Linda Carty, the British woman sentenced to death in Texas.

07 May 2009
Last chance for British grandmother on Death Row: Linda Carty's legal team launches final appeal in Texas.

Lawyers for British grandmother Linda Carty are hoping that a court appeal launched last night in Texas may yet save her life.

26 March 2009

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