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Former French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot has written to US President George W. Bush asking him to grant a retrial to a death row inmate in the southern state of Texas.
Bardot offered in the letter dated March 15 to help pay the legal expenses for Farley C. Marchett, who wrote to her asking for help, and warned that otherwise he stood to be executed in the coming months.
"Mister President, I implore you to use the wondrous power that is in your hands so that this man can benefit from a trial review," she urged Bush.
Saying she had been "deeply affected" by Marchett's story, Bardot suggested that his crime -- not specified in the letter -- could qualify as self-defence under Texan state law, which would spare him the death sentence.
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AFP 161836 GMT 03 06
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