Save Targeted Individual Linda Carty
In the last campaign to save a woman's life, Reprieve announced Tuesday that the tragic case of Targeted Individual, Linda Carty is to be featured in the new Channel 4 documentary, "The British Woman on Death Row" on Monday, 28th November at 8 p.m. on Channel 4. Carty had been recruited to be an informant, to snitch on people in her community.
"Described as 'a star who could have entered politics' by the former Prime Minister of her native St Kitts, Linda Carty today finds herself in the worst situation imaginable," Reprieve stated in a written statement Tuesday.
"She will be executed within months unless the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, grants clemency."
British grandmother Linda Carty, 51, was sentenced to death in 2002 following a catastrophically flawed trial in which she was represented by her famously incompetent Court-appointed attorney Jerry Guerinot.
Ms. McCarty has spent nearly a decade in Texas on death row and now faces imminent execution.
Evidence exists that the former Sunday school teacher, became a targeted individual after framed by people involved in the illegal drug industry after the DEA targeted and recruited her to be a drug informant. ("Sun Times letter re TI Linda Carty TX execution sentence scandal") She was perfect for the snitch job: a person of color, heavily involved in a community of color, born in a foreign country. She had demonstrated being a person of integrity who would want to do the right thing by the government.
In "The British Woman on Death Row," film-maker Steve Humphries sets out to discover who Linda is, and how this former primary school teacher ended up on Texas's notorious death row.
Whether you are new to this case of have followed and supported Linda for some time, this documentary offers a unique insight into Linda's extraordinary life and includes contributions from family, friends, lawyers and Linda herself.
- Watch a video featuring Linda, her family and lawyers explaining what went wrong in her case
- Watch a video of Linda talking about her faith and sing Amazing Grace
- Listen to Linda's appeal to the British people
- Watch Reprieve's Clare Algar talk about Linda's case on Sky News
- Watch the International Women's Day/Mothers Day appeal for Linda
- Look back at Linda's case history
Ms. McCarty's life is now in the hands of Republican Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. Since succeeding George Bush nine years ago, Governor Perry has only granted clemency to one death row inmate - Kenneth Foster in 2007.
Her court-appointed lawyer, Jerry Guerinot, has sent more prisoners to death row than any other lawyer in the United States, yet his failings only became fully apparent after the American law firm Baker Botts, assisted by Reprieve, took on Linda’s case pro bono.
Nobody in the U.S. DoJ has attempted to provide justice for Carty. It has been as though the department washed its hands of her case from the time of her arrest. It and Carty are up against the big boys, the big drug traffic industry profiteers. (Read "Dept of 'Justice' traitors protect liars and sinners - no one else", "CIA drug traffic TI whistleblowers' death threats and psych confinement for 'delusion'" and "Importation Of Cocaine")
"Death threats, false imprisonments plus psychiatric confinements for bogus 'delusion' are among the U.S. government's counterintelligence program hallmark treatments of American targeted individual whistleblowers to suppress facts. Intelligence insiders have provided new evidence of such Nazi type suppression of Americans to Wayne Madsen, reporting that TIs exposing facts about the Central Intelligence Agency's $4 to 6 trillion dollar drug trafficking and money laundering business face these neutralization tactics."
During the case of Linda Carty, it emerged that:
- Guerinot had only spent 15 minutes with Linda before her capital trial.
- He had falsely told the courts that Linda refused to meet with him until he bribed her with a chocolate bar. In fact, she is fatally allergic to chocolate.
- He failed to spot obvious inconsistencies in the prosecution's case.
- He failed to interview key witnesses.
- He did not present evidence on her behalf or even investigate Linda’s case in any depth.
Repreive stated Tuesday, "It is time to get very worried about Linda."
"She needs all the support she can get.'
Here are some of the ways you can help:
- Please sign this petition now.
- Follow Linda Carty's case on Facebook,Twitter or our Save Linda Petition.
- Sign up for updates on Linda's case and all our other work by clicking here.
- Send us a letter seeking clemency for Linda; we will collect these letters and send them to the authorities when an execution date has been set.
- Donate to our Urgent Appeal for Linda Carty.
- Write a letter of support to Linda at: Linda Carty, # 999406, Mountainview Unit, 2305 Ransom Rd, Gatesville, Texas 76528, USA. Letters must include a return address.
Final campaign - Sing Amazing Grace for Linda Carty
If you are a student, a university, if you belong to a church group, or if you are simply a compassionate individual, you can participate to our "Sing Amazing Grace for Linda Carty" campaign to help us save her life. Please click here for more details.
Click here to read more about the film.
Click here to find out more about Linda’s case and how you can help.
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