Texas
A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Wants Her Freed.
If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Melissa Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened.
On the night that 2-year-old Mariah Alvarez died, a Child Protective Services investigator made her way to the Harlingen, Texas, police station to interview the toddler’s siblings.
Mariah’s lifeless body had arrived at a local hospital covered in bru... [11110 chars]