The woman, mother of 14 children, has always said she is innocent and in recent days her family and activists have multiplied appeals to stop her execution
stata suspended the death sentence in Texas of Melissa Lucio
mother of 14 children, accused of the death of one of them. This was decided by the Court of Appeal according to what his lawyers report. There woman always said she was innocent and in recent days his family and activists have multiplied calls to stop his execution. She lucio she was convicted on charges of killing her in 2007 daughter Mariah, Aged 2, in Cameron County. The child, according to the defense, died of internal injuries sustained two days after an accidental fall, while the prosecution claims that she was beaten.
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Lucio, 51, of Mexican descent, was to be executed with a lethal injection in a Gatesville, Texas jail on April 27. The story of the woman also became the subject of a documentary, The State of Texas v Melissaand there are also many celebrities who have mobilized in his defense, including the queen of reality TV Kim Kardashian.
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His lawyers have always said that the woman – in a vulnerable condition as she is pregnant with twins and in the throes of the shock and pain of the death of the child – was subjected to a very controversial method of interrogation, according to which, after having denied more than one hundred times the murder, he would have said likely that I am responsible (a sentence that could be interpreted in many ways anyway).
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None of the other 13 children have ever accused her, and indeed all claim her innocence. We don’t want our mother to be executed – she told her Cnn the eldest son, John -. We have already lost our sister. And now losing our mother to a simply horrible accident. Lucio’s lawyers had asked Governor Greg Abbott for a pardon, or at least a 120-day suspended sentence to review the evidence that would lead to his innocence.
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In a letter to Pope Francis, a month ago, she had written: I believe in God’s righteousness, but I don’t understand how my death would restore the human one. It would only cause more pain to those who have to leave. And again: Even in this cell I feel peace because I know that I have been forgiven and loved by my Lord. He knows everything and this comforts me.
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April 25, 2022 (change April 25, 2022 | 21:22)
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