Linda Carty: Last News

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.

grandmother is awaiting execution on Death Row in the US two decades after being found guilty of murdering a young mum and trying to steal her four-day-old baby.Linda Carty is at the Mountain View Unit, a maximum security prison in Texas, where she has been awaiting execution for 20 years.In May 2001, a court heard that Carty orchestrated the kidnap of her pregnant neighbour Joana Rodriguez by three men in Houston, Texas, intending to cut the baby out of Joana’s body.However the 63-year-old, who was born on the island of Saint Kitts before it gained independence from Britain, maintains her innocence, the Mirror reports.When presenter and journalist Susanna Reid visited her for a TV show, Carty told her: “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.”But the details of the case place Carty as the "ringleader," and not everyone is convinced of her innocence.

Piers Morgan fans are desperate to discover when he will star in another death row programme, after he was 'replaced' by his former Good Morning Britain co-star Susanna Reid.Susanna appeared on ITV documentary British Grandma on Death Row on Tuesday (March 22), meeting up with Linda Carty, who was found guilty of murdering a young mother 20 years ago. The only British woman on America's death row, Kittitian -American Linda was charged with kidnapping mum Joana Rodriguez and her newborn son, before Joana was found suffocated to death.

In May 16th 2001 Joana Rodriguez, 25, was just settling into life with a newborn.The beautiful young mum had given birth four days ago, to a son called Ray. Yet that night, three men came into her home, beat up her partner and kidnapped her and her newborn son. Later that day her lifeless body was found in the trunk of a car.

Susanna Reid was left torn over loving gran Linda Carty’s controversial case as she paid a visit to the first Brit on death row in Texas in more than 70 years.The 51-year-old jetted out to the United States to visit the inmate at Mountain View Unit, a maximum prison in Texas, as she delved into her case for her upcoming documentary ITV British Grandma on Death Row with Susanna Reid.Carty, who has spent more than 20 years on death row, was found guilty for murdering a young mum and trying to steal her four-day-old baby.The convict insists she did not commit the heinous crime and instead states that she was framed for the horrific murder as she explained how her only mistake was lending someone her car.In May 2001, a court heard that Carty organised the kidnapping of her pregnant neighbour, Joanna Rodriguez, 25, with the aid of three men in Houston, Texas, with the intention of cutting the baby out of Joana’s body.At the time of the murder, Carty had purchased scrubs and scissors unaware that the young mum had given birth to her son Ray four days earlier.Luckily, Ray survived the kidnapping and was safely found in the car the next day, but Joana was discovered in the boot of Linda’s car after she had been suffocated.Baby clothes and a baby chair were found in the hotel room where Carty was staying, and she had told her ex-boyfriend that she was expecting a baby despite not being pregnant at the time of her arrest.But despite spending time with the now 63-year-old Brit, the Good Morning Britain presenter confessed she is still uncertain if she believes Carty is guilty.The Mirror reports that Susanna admitted: "I found it impossible to come to a final judgement.

Linda Carty is the only British citizen awaiting execution on death row in America.