sentenced to death, a mother gets a last chance to live

It was Melissa Lucio’s last chance to escape the death penalty. On the night of Monday April 25 to Tuesday April 26, two days before the scheduled date, justice suspended his execution in the United States. In 2007, this mother of 14 children was sentenced to death for the murder of her daughter Maria, who was two years old. She claims since her innocence. Her daughter, she says, died after falling down the stairs in front of her house. A hypothesis that American justice had not taken into account at the time.

His confession to justice, according to his supporters, would have been extorted from him, after a long interrogation. According to his lawyer, justice must today take into account the version of Melissa Lucio. For now, she remains on death row. His lawyers claim to want to present new scientific evidence in order to obtain a review of the trial.