Susanna Reid has headed to Texas to talk to Linda Carty, a 63-year-old grandmother on death row for the murder of her neighbour and the kidnap of a baby. If she is executed, she will be the first ...

Linda Carty is the only British woman on death row in the western world. She was given a death sentence for kidnapping and murdering 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez as part of a plot to steal the young ...

Trafalgar Square, just a stone’s throw from the very center of the British capital, is an expanse of paved sidewalk, pretty fountains and, most notably, five statues. The central statue is of Admiral ...

HOUSTON Her current attorney says the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called this a close one, finding that her trial attorney acted unreasonably. But the court also concluded that even if her ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the death sentence of a Caribbean-born woman convicted of murder in Texas, clearing the way for the first execution of a British woman in 55 years.

A British grandmother on death row in Texas has moved closer to a possible execution date after the US Supreme Court rejected her latest appeal. Linda Carty, 60, was sentenced to death in February ...

A man who has confessed to his role in the slaying of a mother and the kidnapping of her days-old infant was indicted today on a charge of capital murder. Chris Robinson, 32, was arrested shortly ...

HOUSTON -- A judge has rejected arguments from attorneys for a British woman on Texas death row that prosecutors coerced witnesses and improperly hid information that could have affected the outcome ...

A Houston woman convicted of capital murder in the kidnapping of a newborn and the death of the child's mother in May was sentenced to death Thursday. An eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated about ...

In a rare post-conviction hearing ordered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, four witnesses testified last week that they were coerced and threatened by a pair of Harris County veteran ...

From Texas Standard: Texas news outlets often report on death penalty stories, given that the state leads the nation in prisoner executions. But rarely do reports tell the stories of women on death ...