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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.
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. ... No execution date has been set for Lucio ...
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 child's mother, Melissa Lucio, was arrested and convicted of murder due to evidence of abuse. [2] A 2011 appeal against the conviction was denied. [ 3 ] However, due to trial court interference in the accused's right to present a defense, the sentence was unanimously overturned in 2019 by a three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court . [ 4 ]
A Texas mother convicted of murdering her 2-year-old child has been granted a stay of execution just two days before she was scheduled to die. Melissa Lucio, 53, was sentenced to die by lethal ...
The board could recommend commuting Lucio's sentence, grant a 120-day reprieve to give more time for the courts to decide Lucio's fate or uphold Wednesday's execution. If the date does stand ...
The execution of Melissa Lucio is off. Lucio, 52, had been set to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a city of about 75,000 in ...
The Lucio case gained renewed attention after Kim Kardashian became involved in April 2022, using her platform to advocate for clemency as her execution date of April 27 got near.