Lindsay Sandiford from Redcar on Teesside went on trial in Indonesia in 2012 for drugs smuggling.
Three British citizens will rot on death row in some of the world's worst jails this Christmas contemplating their upcoming executions by hanging, lethal injection and firing squad.
A total of 112 have abolished it for all crimes, nine others have abolished it for ordinary crimes and a further 23 are considered de-facto abolitionists because they have not executed anyone in a decade. Ahead of their executions, MailOnline revisits the cases of the three British women who are currently condemned to die this Christmas.
Lawyers could argue for her to be returned to the UK, where she may be able to go free due to the time already served, the newspaper reported.The 67-year-old may have her sentence converted into a whole life term instead due to a law change being introduced in January, due to good behaviour behind barsAn inmate at Sandiford's prison told The Mirror: 'If she can get through to 2025 then she thinks she may be able to avoid the death penalty.
Sandiford's cellmate told the newspaper that she 'is scared of dying but she has accepted it' while another con claimed she is 'foul-mouthed, antagonistic' and drives people out of her cell. She received a death sentence despite cooperating with police in a sting to arrest people higher up in the syndicate, sparking an outcry from human rights lawyers and former UK Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald who said she had been treated with 'quite extraordinary severity'.
Mann, 38, from Derby, plotted to execute her husband with her lover Gurpreet Singh, his childhood friend – but the murder was witnessed by their eldest son Arjun, who was aged nine at the time. Mann has been sentenced to death in India for murdering her husband so that she could inherit £2 million from his life insurance policy
Commenting on her death sentence, which in India is usually carried out by hanging he said: ‘I would like to be there when it happens. It doesn’t fill me with fear, in fact, it would give me a lot of satisfaction and relief and I look forward to that day. I would like all my family to be there with me.
‘But I don’t have any sympathy for her because she’s never shown any remorse and has lied this whole time.’The following morning he told his grandmother what he had seen and his mother was arrested READ MORE: Indian judge who sentenced British mother to death for murdering her husband by poisoning his biryani claimed she deserved the punishment because she shouted abuse at her mother-in-law during her trial Advertisement My mum then took the knife and slit his throat.’
He immediately rushed downstairs to alert his grandmother that ‘something had happened’ but was unable to tell her exactly what as he was accompanied by his mother. Neighbour Joana, aged 25, was kidnapped from her Houston apartment with her four-day-old son, suffocated to death and found in the boot of Carty's car in 2001.
Linda Carty , 63, has been awaiting execution for 20 years after being convicted of killing young mother Joana Rodriguez and plotting to steal the victim's newborn son, Ray, with three men 'Linda didn’t know that Joana had already had her baby four days earlier. Joana and her tiny baby boy were kidnapped and Joana was suffocated to death,' explains Susanna in the programme.
However, the documentary claims that there are many questions over the validity of the witnesses who testified against Carty at her trial, as their stories have changed since her conviction.With access to police custody footage of Carty and one of the key witnesses, Susanna investigates the harrowing murder case.
Prosecutors said Carty, who had been living in Houston for about 20 years by the time of her trial, recruited three men to abduct Joana and her newborn son, Ray Cabrera, in the hopes of saving her relationship with her common-law husband by passing off the child as her own. She had previously suffered several miscarriages.
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