{"id":73734,"date":"2016-09-01T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=25919fbe4a440a5e0f8cf375583282a8"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:44:00","slug":"press-release-minister-duncan-statement-on-linda-carty-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73734","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Minister Duncan statement on Linda Carty case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Texas court has dismissed Linda Carty\u2019s latest appeal against her death sentence which was handed down in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the decision, Minister for the Americas Sir Alan Duncan said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am disappointed by the decision to dismiss Linda Carty\u2019s latest appeal. The British government is deeply opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.<br \/>\nWe have long held concerns about the handling of Ms Carty\u2019s case and will continue to raise these with the relevant authorities. We will continue to provide assistance to Ms Carty and her family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan on Twitter: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanDuncanMP%C2%A0%C2%A0%22FCO%20Minister%20Alan%20Duncan%20on%20Twitter%22\">@AlanDuncanMP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice\" title=\"FCO on Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> &amp; <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" title=\"FCO on Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\">YouTube<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the Americas comments on the Linda Carty court case decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73752,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73734\/revisions\/73752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}