Texas State Senators join effort to save Melissa Lucio from execution
Dallas Observer, April 15, 2022
Melissa Lucio, the South Texas woman convicted of killing her 2-year-old child Mariah in 2007, is set to die by lethal injection on April 27. Eighty-three state representatives recently wrote to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking that Lucio be granted a reprieve or clemency. “Doctors who recently reviewed the autopsy — including a leading specialist from The University of Texas Medical Branch — concluded that the jury heard false testimony about whether Mariah was abused,” the letter said.