Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row since 2008 after being convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Courtesy Innocence Project Mariah Alvarez, 2, died from head trauma in 2007.

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed next week for a crime she says she didn't commit — one that may not have even occurred. She was convicted 14 years ago of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, ...

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Melissa Lucio was convicted of murder in her daughter's death, but advocates say the 2-year-old died after an accidental fall down the stairs A Texas woman on death row after her controversial murder ...

Just two days before Melissa Lucio was scheduled to be to be put to death, a Texas court on Monday halted her execution and sent her case back for review. Lucio, a mother of 14, has been on Texas’ ...

As the days, hours and minutes tick down to the scheduled execution of Melissa Lucio, her mother – true to her own name – still holds on to hope. "She's coming home," Esperanza "Hope" Correa Treviño, ...

A Texas mother who narrowly avoided a scheduled execution over two years ago is "actually innocent" in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, said a judge who is recommending her conviction and death ...

Fourteen years after she was sent to Texas’ death row, Melissa’s Lucio will finally get the chance to have new evidence of her innocence claims examined in state court. Lucio, 53, was set to be ...

When the news broke, the small crowd gathered outside the governor’s public reception room at the Texas Capitol erupted with cheers: The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals had stayed Melissa Lucio’s ...

The highest criminal court in Texas on Monday halted the execution of Melissa Lucio—a mother whose murder conviction in the death of her 2-year-old daughter has come under increasing scrutiny amid ...

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