LINDA CARTY
- Session: 2010-12
- Date tabled: 06.07.2010
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That this House is deeply concerned about the fate of Linda Carty, the only British woman on death row in the United States; is dismayed that her execution date is likely to be announced soon by state officials in Texas following the rejection by the United States Supreme Court in May 2010 of reviewing her case; recalls that Texan state authorities allegedly neglected to inform British authorities that Ms Carty, who holds a UK dependent territory passport, had been detained, despite their obligations under the Vienna Convention on the Right to Consular Assistance and a bilateral treaty between the UK and the United States; notes that the organisation Reprieve has stated that Ms Carty's conviction in 2002 for the murder of a 25-year-old woman was `catastrophically flawed' and that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has previously complained of ineffective counsel at a court hearing in support of Ms Carty; and calls on the UK Government to raise Ms Carty's case as a matter of urgency with the relevant United States and Texan state authorities, including the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, who could grant clemency.