originally published by: WSAV.com
23rd June 23, 2010

Attorneys for Troy Davis presented their side in the long-awaited evidentiary hearing Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Savannah. Davis, who is on death row, is trying to prove he is an innocent man in an argument that has not been used before. Davis’s lawyers argue he should not be executed because it would be unconstitutional to kill an innocent man.

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the evidentiary hearing. Davis must prove to the court he is innocent through new evidence.

On Wednesday, the courtroom fell silent as Davis entered from a side door. Davis, dressed in a white, prison-issued shirt and pants with blue trim, smiled briefly at his mother before sitting down at the defense table.

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originally published by: The Guardian
27th June 2010

Linda Carty, a British woman on death row in America, says that her last hope may be an appeal for clemency by David Cameron.

Gatesville is a tiny town miles from anywhere, deep in the heart of Texas, four hours drive north of Houston. There is little to it but a Wal-Mart, a drive-in movie theatre and two enormous prisons. One of the jails looming out of the flat landscape is called Mountain View. But there is no mountain, and from the prison’s death row, there is no view.

This is where, in all probability, Linda Carty, the only British woman on death row in America, is living out her last weeks and months. Carty has been on death row in Texas for the past nine years, accused of murdering a young mother in order to steal her baby.

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