Almost 15 years ago, a jury convicted Linda Anita Carty of capital murder and put the former teacher, who is now a grandmother, on Texas’ death row.
According to Houston prosecutors’ allegations, Carty, who was born on the island of St. Kitts, at the time a British protectorate, and holds British citizenship and a U.S. passport, and previously pleaded guilty to auto theft, went inside a neighbor’s apartment, directed the woman’s's kidnapping and ultimately held a bag over her head, causing her death in 2001—all to get possession of the murdered woman’s infant child.
