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The case highlights an inherent risk of capital punishment: putting an innocent person to death. ... Lucio is one of seven women on death row in Texas, which includes 174 condemned inmates in all.
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
In a 1983 retrial, he was found not guilty of all charges. He died in 2020. [6] [7] 1989 Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released. [8] [9] [6] 2024 Iwao Hakamada was acquitted in a retrial by the Shizuoka District Court. [10]
The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court documents.
Roberson, 57, also would become the sixth inmate put to death this year in Texas, by far the nation's most prolific state when it comes to the death penalty. The state has executed 590 inmates ...