A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers is planning to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubt about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press
6 April 2022, 18:50
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HOUSTON — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard…
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