The mother long maintained her innocence and that her 2-year-old daughter died after accidentally falling down the stairs.
Judge Arturo Nelson declares Texas inmate Melissa Lucio "actually innocent" in the 2007 death of her daughter.
Efforts to free Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her ...
The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is ...
Judge Arturo Nelson said there was clear and convincing evidence that the death of Lucio’s 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, was ...
Melissa Lucio may be set free after findings that prosecutors withheld evidence that her 2-year-old died of an accidental ...
Melissa Lucio was found guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who died in 2007. A judge now says she's innocent.
A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her ...
Melissa Lucio, who is also innocent of a similar crime that never happened, was recently found to be innocent by a Texas ...
"After 16 years on death row, it's time for the nightmare to end," Vanessa Potkin, one of Lucio's attorneys said.