Texas originally planned to execute Melissa Lucio on Wednesday
Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Melissa Lucio will no longer be executed on Wednesday, April 27, after a Texas appeals court issued a stay of execution on Monday, April 25. Lucio has been on death row for over a decade, since she was convicted of beating her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, to death in 2008. Her case will now be revisited by a lower Texas court to determine if a new trial is warranted.
Lucio’s lawyers, in conjunction with the Innocence Project, claim that Lucio is innocent, that detectives coerced a confession, and that key evidence which would have helped her defense was suppressed in the original trial. Moreover, they also argue that key scientific evidence has since been determined that could prove Lucio’s innocence.
In 2008, the prosecution claimed that Mariah died as a result of head trauma caused by abuse, but Lucio’s lawyers argue that Mariah died after suffering brain damage from a fall down the stairs that took place two days before her death, something many of her children who were present at the time witnessed.
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