19 April 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Government death row pleas are ‘ignored by Texas’

all credits: The Morning Star
12th April 2010

An attempted intervention by the British government in the case of death row inmate Linda Carty has been ignored by the state of Texas, her lawyers have said. Ms Carty, a British passport-holder, was sentenced to death by a Texan court in 2002 for her alleged part in the murder of Joana Rodriguez.

Despite a bilateral convention, Britain was not informed that one of its citizens had been arrested on murder charges. Ms Carty has always protested her innocence and is now seeking to persuade the US Supreme Court that her conviction and death sentence are unsafe.

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30 March 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Update: Development in the Brendan case

Update from Brendan Dixon’s supporters

The decision on Brendan’s case >

There has been more news of the non-disclosure and it really don’t look good for Strathclyde police with statements hidden, so it looks like back to the privy council about the growing list of Non-disclosure in the case.

Brendan now can get the new evidence and prove Lee Sheville and Toni Wallace lied in court, also Joseph Leiper can be proven to have lied in court they never mentioned the visitors to the house that seen Brendan fixing a car that morning. (There were 6 visitors the police being one for a domestic between the householders, and a midwife among others.

We are still trying to get the phone records for My Daughter’s mobile that the police have and our house incoming and outgoings for that day.

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23 February 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Abu-Jamal generates support worldwide

originally published by: AFRIK.COM
19th February 2010

Many, like Victor Toro from Chile, see Abu-Jamal’s legal battles as symbolizing struggles of oppressed people worldwide. “For us, Mumia is our Mandela. He is a political prisoner and a revolutionary,” said Toro, who was expelled from Chile in 1976 due to his activism against the notorious dictator Augusto Pinochet – whose U.S.-backed regime tortured Toro and his wife.

“In America there is racism and violence against people of color,” Toro said recently during a Philadelphia event for Abu-Jamal, the former radio reporter and Black Panther Party (BPP) member from 1968 to 1970 during his mid-teenage years.