The Catholic nun who wrote the book Dead Man Walking has joined in calls to save the life of Melissa Lucio, the Texas mother who is set to be put to death in just two weeks’ time for a crime she says she didn’t commit.
Sister Helen Prejean, who has spent decades campaigning for the death penalty to be abolished, wrote on social media that “psychological pressure and coercion” led Lucio to “admit to things that never happened”.
