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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Vallejo

Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’

The State of Texas vs. Melissa/ Hulu/ Sabrina Van Tassel

One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.

Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to "peer pressure" and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d "be there all day" if he didn’t.

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