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Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Latino descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas.She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord.
Texas' highest criminal court on Monday delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die Wednesday.
The judge who presided over the murder trial of Melissa Lucio said he believes Lucio is "actually innocent" in the 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah. Lucio has been on death row in ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Melissa Lucio on Monday, April 25, only two days before she was scheduled to be put to death.In 2008, Lucio was convicted of killing her ...
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row for over a decade after being convicted of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. Lucio's lawyers have ...
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
In January 2022, Cameron County officials signed an execution warrant for Lucio, scheduled for April 27, 2022. [7] On April 25, 2022 the Texas Court of Appeals granted a stay in Lucio's case and remanded it back to trial court. The court found merit in four of Lucio's claims for clemency. [8]
The number is over four times as many as Oklahoma [4] (the state with the second-highest total of executions in the post-Gregg era and the only one with a higher execution rate) and over 37 times as many as California (the state with the largest number of death row inmates; [5] California has not executed anyone since January 2006, and has a ...