Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.

A Texas court is set to decide the fate of Lucio, whose conviction relied on coerced confession, suppressed evidence, and ...

Lucio scored another enormous legal victory this week after Senior State District Judge Arturo Nelson — the same judge who oversaw her murder trial — issued a ruling finding that the prosecutors ...

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 ...

The US Department of Defense is challenging the decision of a military judge to reinstate three 9/11 terrorists’ plea deals ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court ...

I seriously accept the verdict. Q: What were your emotions the moment you heard the death sentence being read in court? A: Because I am human, I felt a shock when the ultimate penalty was read out.

The 2024 presidential election leaves people opposed to the death penalty in a quandary. The American people have returned to the White House someone who wants to expand the uses of capital ...