Rush to Judgment: Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?

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Rush to Judgment
Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?

5 March 2022

Dr. Thomas Young is adamant: Melissa Lucio should not be put to death. “This would be a horrible, horrible tragedy if she ends up getting executed over this,” he said. “It’s just not right.” Young is a veteran forensic pathologist and the former chief medical examiner in Kansas City, Missouri. For years he has sounded the alarm about forensic science practices that lead to wrongful convictions, with a focus on faulty inferences in death investigations. He said that’s exactly what happened in Lucio’s case. Lucio has been on Texas’s death row since 2008 for killing her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah. According ...

Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?

Lucio faces execution in April for killing her 2-year-old daughter. Experts say her conviction was based on faulty forensics.

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Texas Plans To Execute a Mom for Killing Her 2-Year-Old, but the Case Has Numerous Problems
The district attorney who put Melissa Lucio away is now behind bars himself

14 March 2022

After 14 years in solitary confinement, Melissa Lucio will be put to death in Texas next month for murdering her 2-year-old daughter. Many independent observers think Lucio was wrongly convicted, and she is behind bars for a reason that resembles a moment in the Salem witch trials. Accused of being a "dreadful wizard" in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, Reverend George Burroughs was said to have bitten several girls. To prove it, according to William James Malone in the New York State Dental Association's newsletter, the reverend's "mouth was pried open and the prosecution compared his teeth with the teeth marks ...

Texas Plans To Execute a Mom for Killing Her 2-Year-Old, but the Case Has Numerous Problems

The district attorney who put Melissa Lucio away is now behind bars himself.

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Texas Prepares to Execute a Mother, Despite Evidence She Did Not Kill Her Child
Democrats, Republicans, Kim Kardashian, and even some of the jurors are calling for mercy for Melissa Lucio.

23 April 2022

In 2007, Melissa Lucio, a Mexican American mother in Texas, sat in a room with five police officers who believed she’d killed her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, at her apartment. The Cameron County officers tried to force a confession: In an interrogation that lasted five hours, they put their faces within inches of hers, screaming that they had evidence she’d beaten the girl. They demanded that she look at photographs of Mariah’s lifeless body. Lucio, still in shock, told the cops more than 100 times that she was not guilty. Her daughter hurt herself in an accidental fall, she said. But ...

Texas prepares to execute a mother, despite evidence she did not kill her child

Democrats, Republicans, Kim Kardashian, and even some of the jurors are calling for mercy for Melissa Lucio.

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As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points to Melissa Lucio's Innocence
Trial jurors, forensic experts, and Texas lawmakers push for Lucio’s life to be spared ahead of her April 27 execution.

17 April 2022

As Johnny Galvan flipped through YouTube videos on his flat-screen TV, Melissa Lucio’s face smiled back at him. She did not look like the woman he’d helped send to death row almost 15 years earlier. Here was a young Lucio posing in a feathered ’80s haircut, a hint of teal eyeshadow matching her outfit. There was an older Lucio laughing, her infant son John sitting in her lap. But then there was a more familiar image, the one repeatedly printed in the newspaper: Lucio’s mugshot; her eyes seemingly vacant, her mouth turned downward. “Melissa Lucio is set to be executed ...

As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points to Melissa Lucio’s Innocence

Trial jurors, forensic experts, and Texas lawmakers push for Lucio’s life to be spared ahead of her April 27 execution.

theintercept.com