Here's the story:
The US Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of Tracy Housel, the British national on death row in Georgia.
Housel could now be executed as early as next month.
If the death penalty goes ahead, he will be the first British national to be executed for seven years.
The decision came after both his lawyers and his mother appealed to the UK Government to intervene and secure clemency.
A statement issued by the British Foreign Office in response to the news said the government was opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.
"It is our policy to always make representations against the use of the death penalty and its imposition on British nationals. We will continue to do so in Tracy Housel's case."
Housel, who was born in the British territory of Bermuda, has already spent 16 years on death row, after being convicted for beating and strangling a woman during a two-week crime spree.
But his lawyers claim he was unfairly represented in his original trial, and that his human rights were abused.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote to the state of Georgia, asking for the death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment, following an appeal by Housel's mother, Lula Pellerin.
In addition, more than 100 British MPs, together with other legal bodies in the UK, sent a submission to the Supreme Court calling for Housel's case to be heard in full.
But on Sunday Housel's lawyer Robert McGlasson repeated calls for Mr Straw and Mr Blair to make personal representations to Georgia Governor Roy Barnes and to President Bush.
"Nothing short of a personal phone call will prevent Tracy from being executed," he said.
Mr Housel's lawyers say he was temporarily insane at the time of the crime because of brain damage suffered in childhood - an issue which they say was not discussed in the Georgia court that convicted him.
They say he also suffered from a rare and extreme form of hypoglycemia, which caused him to undergo violent mood swings and blackouts.
And they say Housel's court-appointed lawyer at the trial had never handled a murder case and allegedly wrongly advised him to plead guilty to capital murder, guaranteeing he would have a minimum sentence of life without parole.
Well, although I don't agree with the death penalty, I personally can't see Blair pleading with Bush for clemency for Housel.
Should he try though? Or would such an appeal politically weaken both leaders?
Englishman.
Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque