A middle-aged mother named Melissa Lucio was given the death penalty for allegedly killing her two-year-old son.
Many individuals think Lucio’s situation is an obvious instance of injustice, while others think the consequences she received were warranted. Melissa is innocent, according to a lawyer on Lucio’s appellate defense group.
Prosecutors testified that she killed her daughter Mariah by beating her during Lucio’s 2008 trial. The execution date for Melissa has been scheduled for April 27, 2022. Less than 50 days remain till the death date.
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The 2-year-old, however, reportedly had a physical impairment that made her walk clumsily. She was killed two days later after falling down a steep set of stairs as a result.
Numerous high-ranking officials and medical professionals assert that a dishonest prosecutor forced Lucio to confess to the murder using a statement that was extracted by an overzealous Texas Ranger.
The autopsy results of Melissa Lucio’s daughter Mariah Alvarez were already made public, however experts like Dr. Thomas Young find them to be dubious.
"If she was executed, I wouldn’t be able to function anymore," Melissa Lucio's son Bobby Alvarez says in her clemency application. "I have already been
through enough trauma in my life with the death of my sister Mariah…She is my mom. . . . I beg you not to execute her." pic.twitter.com/VH2tFPn1Ej— Maurice Chammah (@MauriceChammah) March 22, 2022
Dr. Young asserts that Melissa Lucio should not be put to death because he thinks she is innocent. He added that it would be a terrible tragedy if Lucio were put to death.
