Brits executed abroad as killer gran spends 20yrs on Death Row – like 'madman' murderer

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ITV documentary called British Grandma on Death Row with Susanna Reid.In 2002, ex-teacher Carty was found guilty of abuducting and murdering Joana Rodriguez in Texas.Horrified jurors heard how Joana, 25, was kidnapped and killed in 2001 just four days after giving birth to her son, Ray.The woman responsible for Joana’s awful death was found to be her British neighbour, Linda Carty, who was accused of trying to steal the victim’s newborn.She has waited anxiously on death row for 20 years after being sentenced to death by lethal injection.Brit citizen Carty, now 63, is appealing the decision.Speaking to Susanna Reid from Mountain View Unit, a maximum security prison in Texas, Linda said: “If I were guilty of this crime, I would have taken my punishment.“Anyone who knows the system knows Texas does not admit when they are wrong.

I’ll fight until the end.“If I lose my life I know I have people behind me who will not stop until they clear my name.”Another British death row gran is Lindsay Sandiford, 64, who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling cocaine.She has now spent over eight years on death row in Bali and continues to receive UK consular support.And while the last execution in the UK took place in 1964, that hasn’t stopped Brits being executed abroad since then.Here, we take a look at some of the cases...Kevin Barlow - along with his Australian counterpart Brian Chambers - made history by becoming the first Westerners to be executed under Malaysia’s brutal anti-drugs laws.They were found to have 180 grammes of heroin in their possession - and were ordered to die by hanging in 1986.Barlow was born in Stoke-on-Trent and his family pleaded with the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to intervene.Chamber’s.