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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Women on death row: How being a ‘bad mother, bad wife and bad woman’ became a death warrant

Melissa Lucio

Melissa Lucio was just six years old the first time she was molested by her mother’s live-in boyfriend.

At 16, she became a child bride, marrying an older man in what she said was a desperate effort “to escape” a childhood plagued by rape and physical violence.

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