BREAKING: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio so a lower court can review her case.
Human rights organizations like Amnesty International were among the many groups applying pressure on the state to reconsider her execution, which was scheduled for April 27. But perhaps the most powerful of the voices calling for her life to be spared came from her oldest son John. of the documentary"The State of Texas vs Melissa Lucio" at Southern Methodist University earlier this month.Her son says Lucio was a drug addict and a domestic violence victim, but not a killer.
"She had a lot of accidents, a lot of falls, which is something they [CPS] never shared with my mother," John said.
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