THREAD: Melissa Lucio has maintained her innocence on Texas death row for over 14 years. Shell be executed on April 27, 2022. For murder of her 2 y/o daughter Mariah. *But Mariah wasn’t murdered.* She died after an accidental fall down steep stairs. More:innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop…
Texas is scheduled to execute Melissa Lucio for a crime that never occurred in less than 90 days. Melissa, like nearly 70% of exonerated women, has been convicted of a crime that never took place (events that were actually accidents, deaths by suicide, or fabricated). 
Melissa is a survivor of sexual abuse and violence that she has endured her whole life beginning age 6. Her history of abuse makes her especially vulnerable to coercive tactics and falsely confessing.
On the night her youngest child died, she was interrogated and intimidated for five hours, until she finally said, “I guess I did it,” to get detectives to end the interrogation.
Melissa was a mother of 12 when she was arrested. She was also pregnant with twins she gave birth to in jail and had to give up for adoption. The State of Texas presented no physical evidence establishing that Melissa ever abused Mariah or any of her children.
In fact, thousands of pages of Child Protective Services records show her kids never said she was violent with them.
We have less than 90 days to #SaveMelissaLucio.
We have less than 90 days to #SaveMelissaLucio.
I’m joining @innocence in preventing an irreversible injustice before it’s too late. Add your name to #SaveMelissaLucio now:innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop…
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