New infor­ma­tion on for­eign nation­als fac­ing the death penal­ty in the U.S. is now avail­able through Mark Warren of Human Rights Research. This DPIC page includes infor­ma­tion on 143 for­eign cit­i­zens from 37 coun­tries on state and fed­er­al death rows. California has the most (59 inmates), fol­lowed by Texas (24), and Florida (23). Many of these inmates were not informed of their right to con­tact their coun­try’s rep­re­se­n­a­tives under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a treaty the U.S. has rat­i­fied and relies upon to pro­tect its cit­i­zens when they trav­el abroad. Thirty-one (31) for­eign nation­als have been exe­cut­ed in the U.S. since 1976, many of whom were not prop­er­ly informed of their rights under this treaty. Among coun­tries, Mexico has the largest num­ber (60) of its cit­i­zens on death row in the U.S.

The case of Linda Carty, a United-Kingdom nation­al from St. Kitts on death row in Texas, has gar­nered inter­na­tion­al atten­tion. Her cur­rent lawyers assert that her tri­al attor­ney did not present avail­able mit­i­gat­ing evi­dence and that no foren­sic evi­dence places her at the scene of the crime.

(DPIC post­ed, February 8, 2013). See Foreign Nationals; see also a report from Reprieve on this issue. See DPIC’s report on inter­na­tion­al issues. Listen to DPIC’s pod­cast on inter­na­tion­al issues.

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