The family and supporters of Linda Carty, a British...

The family and supporters of Linda Carty, a British woman on death row in Texas for murder, called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene.
They asked Blair to put pressure on the American authorities to give Carty's new defence team more time to mount an appeal.
Carty's supporters claimed her conviction was unsafe because it rested on the evidence of three criminals who had a grudge against her and were rewarded for their testimonies.
They also said Carty's defence during her trial was inadequate, and that US authorities should have alerted British diplomats to her case.
At a press briefing in the House of Commons, lawyers for Carty, 45, said they had unearthed fresh evidence pointing to her innocence.
The campaign was being championed by Clive Stafford Smith, the lawyer who acted for some of the Britons freed from Guantánamo Bay, the British Labour MP Vera Baird QC, and the human rights charity Reprieve.
Carty was convicted in February 2002 of murdering her Houston neighbour, Joana Rodríguez, 25, who died of suffocation after being left tied up with a bag over her head in the boot of a car.
The prosecution claimed Carty had wanted to abduct Rodríguez when she was pregnant, "cut the baby out of her", and adopt the child to save her own relationship. Three alleged conspirators gave evidence against her in return for the charges against them being reduced.
At the press briefing, Carty's daughter, Jovelle Joubert, 24, said: "I believe in my heart my mom had nothing to do with what happened." Ms Joubert delivered a letter to Downing Street asking for Mr Blair's help.
Ms Baird, an experienced criminal lawyer, said the facts of the case as they had been presented to the court "make my flesh creep with suspicion".
Mr Stafford Smith said the three witnesses had a grudge against Carty because they had been involved in the illegal drugs trade and she had in the past assisted the drug enforcement administration.