Save Linda Carty - British grandmother facing execution in Texas

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   Name: Sara Glassman on Feb 21, 2010

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   Name: Claire Grady on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Daniel Giles on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Markus Atorf on Feb 22, 2010

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5. 155
   Name: Thomas Dixon on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Luis Cook on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Hester Gallen on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Peter Miller on Feb 22, 2010

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   Name: Tatjana Rhode on Feb 22, 2010

   Comments: The Bill of Rights mandates that criminal sanctions can only be imposed against an individual who has been subject to due process of law. This includes important factors such as the presumption of innocence, a fair opportunity to answer the charges presented before a duly constituted court and finally the assistance of a well-qualified defence counsel. In the context of capital punishment due process protections gain even more significance. Therefore, it is valid to ask: How adequate is legal presentation,particularly in relation to insufficient economic resources by indigents defendants? In 1984 the US Supreme Court established a two-part test for establishing a claim of ineffective counsel. The Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel "exists, and is needed to protect the fundamental right to a fair trial." As a result Justice Brennan of the Supreme Court declared in 1994 that the "case reports and academic literature are filled with countless accounts of inadequate legal representation in capital cases both at the trial and sentencing phases." These ideas are echoed by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as well as by her colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who declared in a speech in 2001 that "she had yet to see a death case among the dozens coming to the Supreme Court in which the defendant was well represented at trial and that people who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty." Recent reports of the American Bar Association expressed concern by classifying the indigent defence services as a "mixed and uneven system that lacks level oversight and standards and does not provide uniform, quality representation to indigent defendants in all capital proceedings." The report continues to stigmatize the States' failure to adopt state wide public defender offices or to adequately fund indigent defence services in each county.In short, the defence system gets close to a system of patchwork quality in which serious fairness and accuracy breakdowns are virtually inevitable.

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10. 160
    Name: Sunmi Kim on Feb 22, 2010

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11. 161
    Name: Sophie Pritchard on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Nicole Cunliffe on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Judith Evans on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Leon Glenister on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Layla Atkinson on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Cait Hughes on Feb 22, 2010

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17. 167
    Name: Lucy Sweetland on Feb 22, 2010

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18. 168
    Name: Bram De Groot on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: killing people is wrong: also when the state does it!

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19. 169
    Name: Joe Stoker on Feb 22, 2010

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20. 170
    Name: Meg Hewitt on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: Please do what you know deep down is the right thing to do and spare this innocent woman her life.

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21. 171
    Name: Paul Brendan Ryan on Feb 22, 2010

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22. 172
    Name: Rebecca Odell on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Rohan Talbot on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Sarah Smih on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Saadiya Chaudary on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Sonali Bhattacharyya on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Kate Morris on Feb 22, 2010

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29. 179
    Name: Ryan Anglem on Feb 22, 2010

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30. 180
    Name: Tessa Marshall on Feb 22, 2010

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31. 181
    Name: Mandy Horton on Feb 22, 2010

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32. 182
    Name: Stephen Fletcher on Feb 22, 2010

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33. 183
    Name: Aude Van Hille on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: This woman have had help the American goverment when she was working for the DEA, they could at least let her live.

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34. 184
    Name: Penny Ireland on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: Putting the words Texas and Justice in the same sentence is contradictory! The lawyer should be disbarred.

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35. 185
    Name: Clare Duffy on Feb 22, 2010

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36. 186
    Name: Clare Duffy on Feb 22, 2010

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37. 187
    Name: Martin Goldring on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: no-one should ever be executed unless it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they committed the crime of which they are charged. It cannot truthfully be said that it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Linda did commit the crime of which she was charged and convicted, so she should not be executed

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38. 188
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 22, 2010

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39. 189
    Name: Edward Roche on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Duggie Moore on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Lisa Diane McGifford on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Charles Foster on Feb 22, 2010

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43. 193
    Name: Ray on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: Why aren't the British government doing anything?

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44. 194
    Name: Chris Humphries on Feb 22, 2010

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45. 195
    Name: Joanne Murray on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: An absolute disgrace on your country.

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46. 196
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 22, 2010

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47. 197
    Name: Rev. Anne Bennett on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: James Richards on Feb 22, 2010

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    Name: Simon Shepherd on Feb 22, 2010

    Comments: Please show mercy - there are real doubts about Linda's guilt, many other death row inmates have been shown to have been innocent, a number of them only after they have been put to death. Do you really want that possibility on your conscience?

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    Name: Edward Haworth on Feb 22, 2010

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