"Replica prison cell highlights Briton's death row plight," is the UK Press Association report, via Google News.
A life-size death row cell will be opened to the public in central London to highlight the plight of death row Briton Linda Carty, campaigners have said.
Carty, 51, could be given the lethal injection within weeks after the US Supreme Court refused to review a murder conviction campaigners say resulted from a "catastrophically flawed" trial.
Clive Stafford Smith, director of legal action charity Reprieve, said: "Linda faces execution very soon now.
"There is no lonelier place than a death row cell, and no greater power imbalance than that between a condemned prisoner and the government that wants to kill them. I encourage visitors to enter Death's Waiting Room and imagine yourself in Linda's position - I'm sure it will be an unforgettable experience."
The exhibition, which opens on Thursday, will replicate Carty's death row cell in the courtyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square.
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Carty has always maintained her innocence. She claims she was framed over the murder by the men who carried out the abduction due to her earlier work as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Reprieve claim Carty was given an incompetent defence lawyer during the original trial who, amongst other alleged failings, neglected to inform the British Government so it could intervene on her behalf. Likewise the Foreign Office complained of "ineffective counsel" in court filings it made under the last government in support of Carty.
"US Death Row to Haunt Trafalgar Square," is the posting at LondonNet.
DEATH stalks Trafalgar Square from 12 August in the eerie form of a full-size replica of an American death row.
Billed as Death's Waiting Room, the exhibit will appear outside St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, just across from the Square, to draw attention to the case of Linda Carty, a grandmother from Britain who faces execution in the Texas.
The death row on show is to be an exact copy of the one in which Carty currently languishes.
"I encourage visitors to enter Death's Waiting Room and imagine yourself in Linda's position," said Clive Stafford Smith, a leading anti death penalty campaigner and director of legal action charity Reprieve.
Earlier coverage begins with this post, noting the Supreme Court's refusal to review her case.
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