Lucio's execution date was set for April 27, 2022. That March 22, her attorneys filed her clemency application, which included a bevy of reports from experts disproving the prosecution's case.

In this undated photograph, Melissa Lucio holds one of her sons, John. Lucio was convicted in the 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, and sentenced to be executed.

Lucio, born in Lubbock, Texas, endured years of abuse and violence, according to her attorneys. At 6 years old, she was sexually assaulted by one of her mother's partners, her legal team said in ...

Listen to the moment Melissa Lucio finds out her execution has been delayed 02:17. The judge who presided over the murder trial of Melissa Lucio said he believes Lucio is "actually innocent" in ...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will review Melissa Lucio's death sentence and make a recommendation to Gov. Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27.

A woman facing execution in Texas for killing her daughter is seeking clemency, claiming she was coerced into confessing to the crime. Paramedics were called to Melissa Lucio's home in Harlingen ...

Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at home.

Ms. Lucio’s case has also done something rare in the intensely polarized political climate of Texas: It has brought Democratic and Republican lawmakers together in mutual outcry.

Melissa Lucio’s mother, Esperanza Treviño, proclaims her daughter’s innocence on the steps of the Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 7, 2022.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The case against Melissa Lucio, the Harlingen mother convicted of killing her young daughter, has been sent back to trial court. An order filed June 19 in ...

Acknowledging substantive questions about Lucio’s guilt and the fairness of her conviction, the appeals court blocked her Wednesday execution so the case can be further investigated. The Texas ...

Texas judge says death row inmate is innocent in daughter’s death. Melissa Lucio may be set free after findings that prosecutors withheld evidence that her 2-year-old died of an accidental fall.