A district judge provided two recommendations to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2024, but the court’s process provides no details on when it will rule on the death row inmate’s innocence.

Texas planned to execute Melissa Lucio on Wednesday. Republican and Democratic state legislators had prayed with her on death row and called for her execution to be halted. Sister Helen Prejean had ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a stay for the execution of Melissa Lucio, a woman who was scheduled to be put to death in two days for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in ...

Melissa Lucio was convicted of murder in her daughter's death, but advocates say the 2-year-old died after an accidental fall down the stairs A Texas woman on death row after her controversial murder ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Texas plans to execute a mother in April nearly 15 years after being convicted for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter. Melissa Lucio's execution is scheduled for April 27.

Hours after Melissa Lucio's 2-year-old daughter died in 2007, Texas Rangers took Lucio to an interrogation room where they yelled at her, threatened her and showed her pictures of her dead child, her ...