A British prisoner on death row in Texas has lost her latest 
legal appeal, which means she could soon be executed by lethal injection.
Linda Cart y, 50, was sentenced to death in 2002 for involvement in abducting and killing a woman in Houston. She says she was framed.
The New Orleans fifth circuit court has opted not to overturn that verdict.
Her lawyers say Carty could die as early as next summer unless there is an appeal at the US Supreme Court.
Carty has British dependent territory citizenship because she was born on the island of St Kitts, in the Caribbean, to Anguillan parents.
The Foreign Office said it had made a number of representations on her behalf to the US government.
Earlier this year, it intervened in the legal process, filing an amicus brief to the US Appeals Court complaining of lack of notification of the woman's original arrest in 2001 and "ineffective counsel".
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