New Hope for Melissa Lucio

Latino USA

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Documentary

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Phone call between Melissa Lucio and Texas State Representative Jeff Leach: Melissa: Hello? Jeff: Melissa? Melissa: Yes? Jeff: This is Jeff Leach. Melissa: Yes sir. Jeff: How are you today? Melissa: I’m doing fine, how are you? Jeff: Have you heard the news? Melissa: No, what? Jeff: You haven’t heard the news yet? Melissa: No, what happened? Jeff: The Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of your execution for Wednesday. Melissa: Are you serious?! Are you serious? (starts crying) Jeff: We just got word about 15 minutes ago. Melissa: Oh my God! That is wonderful! (crying)

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0:00.0	Dear listener, we have a very big and actually a very happy update on one of our recent stories.
0:07.0	Melissa Lucio, the first Latina on death row in Texas, and whose execution was scheduled for April 27th,
0:15.6	has been given a new opportunity to prove the innocence she's so long claimed.
0:21.2	Here's Melissa two days before her death sentence, as she takes a call from Republican
0:26.4	Texas State Representative Jeff Leach.
0:29.8	Hello.
0:31.2	Melissa.
0:32.4	Yes.
0:33.0	Hey, this is Jeff Leach.
0:34.8	Yes, sir.
0:36.0	How are you today?
0:37.5	I'm doing fine. How are you?
0:39.4	Good. Have you heard the news?
0:41.3	No, what?
0:42.6	You haven't heard the news yet?
0:44.7	No, what happened?
0:45.9	The quarter criminal appeals issued a stay of your execution for Wednesday.
0:59.8	We just got word about 15 minutes ago.
1:03.6	Oh my god.
1:08.8	That is wonderful.
1:10.4	Oh,
1:14.4	back in 2008, Melissa was convicted of capital murder for the death of her two-year-old daughter,
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