Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:21:29 GMT
As a big question mark continues to hang over Washington's already dismal human rights record, another death row case raises more eyebrows over fair administration of justice in the country. Linda Carty, a British citizen, is due to be executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas for the alleged murder of a woman nine years ago, the Jamaica Observer reported on its website. Carty, 51, has always protested her innocence, but she was given the lethal injection within weeks after the US Supreme Court refused to review the murder conviction said to have resulted from a flawed trial. Carty was arrested in 2001 and charged with the murder of a tenant on the same floor of the apartment building where she lived in Texas. Despite the lack of any forensic evidence linking Carty to the crime, the jury found her guilty and sentenced her to death. Cases of human rights violations in the West are not few. As a case in point, fresh evidence has come to light that questions the death of a British arms inspector seven years ago. A retired pathologist has cast further doubt on the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the weapons inspector alleged to have committed suicide in 2003, reports the British daily The Independent on its website. Dr Jennifer Dyson has joined other experts questioning the official finding that Kelly bled to death, adds the same newspaper. She argues it was more likely that the 59-year-old scientist suffered a heart attack due to the stress he had been placed under. Kelly, Britain's most senior inspector in Iraq, was found dead in woods near his home in Oxfordshire. Kelly had taken a non-lethal dose of painkillers and had cut his left wrist. He was revealed to be the source behind a BBC news story which accused Tony Blair's former communications chief Alastair Campbell of 'sexing up' the so-called 'dodgy dossier' about Iraq's weapons. According to The Independent, the new evidence includes ten reasons to query the suicide verdict. 1. An elbow injury had left David Kelly's right arm too weak to cut his wrist. 2. He had 'difficulty swallowing pills' so he couldn't have swallowed 29 tablets. 3. Medical records about the case have been classified for 70 years, implying there's something to hide. 4. There were no fingerprints on the pruning knife used to cut his wrist. 5. He anticipated his own death, predicting he would 'probably be found dead in the woods' if Iraq was invaded. 6. Doctors doubt the severed artery would have caused enough blood loss for him to have died of a hemorrhage. 7. The detective who found his body, Constable Graham Coe, said there wasn't much blood, so how could he have died of blood loss after slitting his wrist? 8. Two paramedics at the scene were skeptical the 'wrist wound we saw' could have caused his death. 9. There was no evidence he was depressed; he was looking forward to his daughter's wedding. 10. His death certificate was not signed by a doctor or coroner and does not state a place of death. |
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