Exclusive: Death row inmate Melissa Lucio speaks out after judge finds her 'innocent' in daughter's death
Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted in her daughter's death, spoke out exclusively to ABC News since a judge found that the Texas mother is "innocent."
He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was still lucid. “The voice of conscience echoing ever louder and higher for as long as the agonizing nights last.”
Texas mother on death row for 16 years declared ‘actually innocent’ in daughter’s death
Lucio was convicted of the 2007 killing of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a community of around 71,000 people on
Texas Mother on Death Row 'Actually Innocent' in Daughter's Death, Judge Says: 'She Did Not Kill Her'
A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter is 'actually innocent,' as Texas’s Court of Criminal Appeals can now decide on her release.
A Texas death row inmate is ‘actually innocent’ of her toddler’s murder and her conviction should be overturned, judge finds
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the crime at all.
Death row inmate Melissa Lucio 'innocent' in daughter's death, judge finds
The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is “innocent” in the death of her daughter.
Death row mom Melissa Lucio found innocent 16 years after conviction for 2-year-old daughter's death
Lucio has long maintained she is innocent and her daughter Mariah died of a head injury sustained in an accidental fall down a steep staircase two days before her death
Texas inmate Melissa Lucio is 'actually innocent' of killing daughter, judge says
The mother long maintained her innocence and that her 2-year-old daughter died after accidentally falling down the stairs. She was originally accused of beating her daughter.
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