As the date nears, cries for Melissa Lucio’s execution to be halted are growing. Lucio is the only Hispanic woman on death row in Texas.
PUBLISHED 11:31 AM CDT Apr. 15, 2022TEXAS — A group of 20 Texas state senators this week sent a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole calling for Melissa Lucio’s execution to be halted
The letter says new evidence shows Mariah’s death was an accident and that Lucio is not responsible. The senators said her execution would “will not achieve justice for Mariah”Earlier this week, 20 state senators, Democrats and Republicans, sent ato the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles stating that new evidence suggests her daughter was killed in an accident and that Lucio is not responsible.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
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