A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio should be overturned. Lucio's execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
FILE - Esperanza Treviño, Melissa Lucio ’s mother, pleas to the public as she is surrounded by family and friends on the steps of the Cameron County Courthouse Administrative entrance in Brownsville, Texas , Feb. 7, 2022, that her daughter is innocent and was wrongfully sentenced to death for the murder of Lucio’s 2-year-old daughter.
“We hope and pray the Court of Criminal Appeals will agree with the District Attorney, the defense, and Judge Nelson and our mother can come home to her family. It’s been 17 years that we have been without her. We love her and miss her and can’t wait to hug her,” Lucio’s children said in a statement Monday.
On April 10, Missy Medary, the presiding judge for the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region in South Texas, assigned Nelson to address the pending findings in the case. Nelson, who is a retired judge and had presided over Lucio’s 2008 trial, approved the findings two days later.
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