'If defendant (Melissa) Lucio does not get a stay by a certain day,' the prosecutor said, 'then I will do what I have to do and stop it.'
has urged the state parole board and governor to spare Lucio's life.
Outside of court intervention or a motion from Saenz, Lucio's execution can be stopped if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends either changing her sentence from death to life in prison or postponing the execution date for up to 120 days. Gov.would have to accept the board's recommendation, which is not expected until two days before Lucio's April 27 execution date.
The medical examiner later concluded that Mariah was severely beaten and ruled her death a homicide caused by blunt force head trauma. At least one other pathologist who has examined the evidence since disagrees with the definitive finding of abuse and homicide. Lucio consistently denied beating Mariah across the head, however, or knocking her head in any way. But police and prosecutors believed Lucio's admissions to other abuses would lead a jury to infer she had also caused the fatal injury. They were right.At trial, Escalon told the jury he knew right away that Lucio was guilty. He saw a quiet woman, slouching her head down without asking for an attorney and arrived at his personal verdict.
Dental molds, finger nail clippings and Lucio's ring were taken to seek matches to injuries on Mariah's body, but none of the evidence was ever tested, according to trial testimony. With Lucio's interrogation statements in hand, the prosecution didn't need to test for things like DNA, the district attorney, Armando Villalobos, said at trial.in his office that occurred around the time of Lucio's trial, found to have accepted bribes for lenient prosecutorial action.
In the years that followed Lucio's convictions, Texas courts rejected her petitions alleging the witnesses' exclusion kept her from presenting a complete defense of her innocence. Testimony shedding light on Lucio's body language or explaining why an abused woman would behave a certain way under police interrogation, the Texas Court of Criminal AppealsIn the federal appellate process, it was the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that temporarily put the brakes on Lucio's sentence.
"This case, though, is a clear example that justice to a defendant may necessitate a more comprehensive review of state-court evidentiary rulings than is presently permissible," he added. After her husband abandoned her at age 26, she moved in with a new man, Robert Alvarez. She had seven more children, with Mariah being the youngest. Lucio's older children reported Alvarez abused Lucio, and a school principal once reported he saw Alvarez punch her while the family was homeless, living in a park, according to court records.
Multiple children told police shortly after Mariah's death that Lucio never abused them, but they did point suspicion elsewhere for potential abuse or causes of the child's death.
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