The Briton awaiting execution by lethal injection in...

The Briton awaiting execution by lethal injection in America expressed his remorse for the murder of a woman 17 years ago and his gratitude to Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and other politicians for their efforts to spare his life.
Tracy Housel, 43, has been told that he will be executed in the state of Georgia on March 12 for strangling Jean Drew in 1985. He is a British citizen by virtue of his birth in Bermuda, although he moved to America as a baby.
In an interview with The Sunday Times he said: "I am deeply, deeply sorry for what I did. I will never forget what I did to Jean Drew and her family. I wake up every day with the terrible shame of my actions. I will always have blood on my hands."
"Nothing in life can prepare somebody for being strapped down and have their otherwise healthy life taken away from them by the operation of the law," Housel said.
"When I first got to death row I felt my life was not worth living because of what I had done, but I still have hopes and dreams and I won't release them. I dream someday of seeing my grandchildren."
After his conviction and death sentence in 1986, it was discovered he suffers from a rare form of hypoglycaemia - low blood sugar - that makes him prone to psychotic mood swings. He also received a number of severe head injuries as a child, which caused mental illness.
In Britain, 106 MPs have petitioned for a reprieve, as have the Bar Council and the human rights committee of the Law Society. Foreign secretary Jack Straw rang Roy Barnes, the governor of Georgia, to ask for Housel's life to be spared but was told that, contrary to the situation in many other states, the governor had no power to intervene. The final decision rests with the Georgia parole and pardons board.
Housel's only chance of averting execution is a clemency hearing scheduled for March 11.