The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is expected to decide today whether the state should move ahead with the execution of Melissa Lucio, a Hispanic mother-of-14 who has spent 13 years on death row for a crime she says she didn’t commit.
The parole board is considering Lucio’s case on Monday to determine if her death sentence should be commuted to life in prison or if she should be granted a 120-day reprieve from execution.
