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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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, ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Monday delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die Wednesday. The decision from the Texas Court of Criminal ...

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 ...

Kassin is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal College and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Williams College The clock is ticking. On April 27, the state of ...

A defensive behemoth from Brazil, Lucio became a FIFA World Cup winner and a true modern great of his profession during his time with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich. "He's a hitman, he can break ...

Lucio is seeking clemency as her April 27 execution date approaches. A woman facing execution in Texas for killing her daughter is seeking clemency, claiming she was coerced into confessing to the ...