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Woman on death row waiting to hear news

Supreme Court may decide today whether it will take her appealBy RENÉE C. LEEHOUSTON CHRONICLEMay 3, 2010, 7:34AMTwenty-year-old Joana Rodriguez had just given birth days earlier when four men busted into her Houston apartment on May 16, 2001, pistol-whipped her husband and abducted her and her newborn.Rodriguez's body was later found in the trunk of a car with a plastic bag over her head. Her arms and legs were bound with duct tape and her mouth and nose also had been covered with tape. An autopsy revealed she suffocated.Authorities said Linda Anita Carty, a neighbor, plotted the kidnapping because she wanted Rodriguez's baby in a desperate attempt to keep her common-law husband.Carty, who was found guilty of capital murder in February 2002, is now fighting for her life as one of 10 women on Texas death row...continue to full post

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