Linda Anita Carty (born 5 October 1958) is a United States and British citizen who is on death row in Texas.
In February 2002, she was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder in 2001 of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez in order to steal Rodriguez's newborn son.
Carty claimed she was framed by her co-defendants who were drug dealers because she had previously been an informant in years past.
Carty has appealed her conviction, with her most recent petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari being denied by the Supreme Court on November 13, 2018.She is the only British citizen on death row in the United States.
If executed, Carty stands to become the first female British national to be put to death since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century.