BREAKING Melissa Lucio, the South Texas mother of 14 who was days from her execution date, has been granted a stay from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. ✏️beccaghennes ➡️
The news of her stay on Monday offered long-awaited relief towho for 15 years have watched and waited and dreaded the day state officials might administer a lethal injection, the penalty a jury set in the death of her toddler.
Melissa Lucio's sister Sonya Valencia Alvarez walks by her mother’s home which has a banner that reads Salvemos a Melissa, which translates into Let’s Save Melissa, as she approaches the press outside the home, Friday, April 22, 2022, in Harlingen.The district attorney, Luis Saenz, had the power to unilaterally withdraw her death warrant and issue a new trial.
Several of the younger children said they witnessed Mariah fall down the stairs, and that their mother had never been abusive. But the children – including one who specifically asked to testify – were never called to the stand. This daughter’s pleas to the defense lawyer were ignored, according to Lucio’s clemency petition. The petition also notes that recordings of another child saying he witnessed the fall were never presented to a jury.
They say Lucio’s statement to police is the “hallmark” of a coerced confession, one she made under duress and in part to shield one of her older daughters – who had had some conflicts with her little sister – from being grilled about Mariah’s death. The defense at her trial also never presented evidence about the years of sexual abuse and domestic violence Lucio endured as a child and an adult, which could have made her more susceptible to being coerced.
Attorneys say the evidence they’ve amassed demonstrates Lucio is not the heartless abuser the prosecution painted her as, but rather a victim of a broken justice system that has come too close to executing an innocent woman.
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