This coming Wednesday, a woman in Texas is going to be executed for murdering her child. The woman's name is Melissa Lucio.
Melissa has been railroaded to the point of lethal absurdity. So railroaded that 103 Texas legislators, 32 of which are Republican house members and 8 Republican state senators are calling for a stay of execution.
A little background, this is from Wikipedia.
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On February 17, 2007, paramedics were called to a residence, where an unresponsive two-year-old child was found. The child succumbed thereafter. The child’s mother, Melissa Lucio, was arrested and convicted of murder due to evidence of abuse.[2] A 2011 appeal against the conviction was denied.[3] However, due to trial court interference in the accused's right to present a defense, the sentence was unanimously overturned in 2019 by a three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court.[4] However, this was again subsequently overturned and Lucio remains on death row.[5 In January 2022, Cameron County officials signed an execution warrant for Lucio. She is scheduled for execution on April 27, 2022.[6]
There is a fine documentary on the subject released in 2020. It is a mere 1 hour and 40 minutes long. It tells in detail Melissa’s life history including details of the alleged murder. It points out, with rock hard evidence, evidence never presented in court due to the defense lawyer’s quashing of same, that there was an eyewitness to the events leading up to Mariah’s death. That lawyer joined the DA’s staff after the conviction came. His starting salary was higher than many who had been there at length.
As for the DA, he is doing a 13 year stretch for bribery along with a laundry list of other crimes.
It’s one hell of a story, filled with pathos, malfeasance and the 3rd degree.
Meanwhile, Melissa Lucio is running out of hours. Minutes.
Please contact your representatives at once, especially those of you here in Texas. In other states please contact your representatives in Washington. Go to Twitter, Facebook. Please.
Melissa Lucio is innocent. Blindingly innocent.