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Texas mother on death row for 16 years declared ‘actually innocent’ in daughter’s death 

Texas mother on death row for 16 years declared ‘actually innocent’ in daughter’s death 

Melissa Elizabeth Lucio, a death row inmate convicted of murdering her toddler daughter, is “actually innocent”, the trial judge who presided over her capital murder case said last month. In support of her appeal, the 56-year-old’s trial judge, Arturo Nelson of the Cameron County District Court, declared that the “conviction and sentence of death should…

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