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Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at home.
A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner's trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.
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 ...
Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors. [2]
On July 1, 2022, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for twenty-five state death row inmates, one of whom was Johnson. He was scheduled to be executed on May 2, 2024. [ 11 ] His execution was later postponed due to a request by attorney general Gentner Drummond , who asked for sixty days between executions rather than ...
The Tulsa world also reported that the "case drew immediate attention" because Wilkens's defense, battered woman syndrome, was "fairly new and virtually untested in Oklahoma courts." [ 5 ] April Wilkens did not take a gun to the house, and stayed there after the killing until police arrived, covering the body with a blanket and making no ...
A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the hands of Texas’s Court of ...
Wayne Henry Garrison (born August 26, 1959) is an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three children. He was arrested in 1999 for the 1989 murder and dismemberment of 13-year-old Justin Wiles in Tulsa, Oklahoma.