(source: CNN)
Melissa Lucio will be executed on April 27, 2022, for the murder of her daughter.
Melissa Lucio is a janitor born on July 18, 1969, at Lubbock in Texas. She lost her father when she was an infant. Her mother sent her to Rio Grande Valley when she was three years.
At the age of 16, she got married to an alcoholic and gave birth to five children. Melissa Lucio left him after she could not take it any longer. She was abused sexually most of the time by her mother’s boyfriend.
Melissa Lucio was addicted to cocaine and was usually not at home. Most of her children were sent to foster homes because she could not cater for them.
She was sentenced to death in 2008 after she was found guilty of murdering her youngest daughter, Mariah Alvarez.
Melissa Lucio told the court her daughter died because of the injuries she sustained from falling from the stairs at their home.
After Mariah Alvarez death on February 17, 2007, an autopsy performed revealed she had a head injury, bruising lungs, kidney and spinal cord.
The court believed these were injuries she sustained from the abuse of her mom.
