A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her ...
Melissa Lucio was found guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who died in 2007. A judge now says she's innocent.
Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her ...
In a court filing, the judge said the conviction of Melissa Lucio, whose scheduled execution in 2022 was halted, should be ...
"After 16 years on death row, it's time for the nightmare to end," Vanessa Potkin, one of Lucio's attorneys said.
Lucio, from Brownsville, Texas, was arrested in 2007 following the passing of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Álvarez, who ...
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 ...
A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be overturned as new evidence affirmed her daughter died from an accidental fall.
Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.
Judge Arturo Nelson found in October that there was "clear and convincing evidence" that Lucio's 2-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez died in 2007 after an accidental fall down a staircase and that ...