Melissa Lucio is set to be executed April 27 for the death of her 2-year-old child in 2007, but supporters and many state lawmakers from both parties have raised doubts about police tactics, legal representation and new evidence.
The son of a Texas woman who’s on death row was in Dallas Friday pleading for help in halting her execution.
Lawyers said prosecutors misinterpreted it as a confession and argued that jurors never heard evidence that suggested the injuries were from a fall days earlier."My mother is an innocent woman, my mother was never an abusing woman, the monster that the district attorney Armando Villalobos, former district attorney, made her seem like," her son said.
"When it comes to someone's liberty on the line, when someone's been robbed of their freedoms for a crime that they very likely did not commit, and I believe all lawmakers should be moved to act," said State Rep. Jeff Leach .