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‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

EXCLUSIVE: In just six days, Melissa Lucio will be strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs that will kill her for a murder that she not only says she didn’t commit – but that experts say didn’t even occur. Her son Bobby Alvarez tells Rachel…

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From Kim Kardashian to Amanda Knox: Famous names who have joined fight for Melissa Lucio and why

With two days to go until Melissa Lucio will be executed in Texas for a crime she says she didn’t commit, a growing number of famous faces have joined the fight to save her life. Rachel Sharp writes

The Independent UK

Sabrina Butler-Smith escaped execution after she was falsely accused of killing her son. Now, she’s fighting for Melissa Lucio

Sabrina Butler-Smith was exonerated from Alabama death row, and tells Josh Marcus that there’s still time to stop killing of another misunderstood mother: Melissa Lucio

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‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

The Independent UK

DCW chief’s hunger strike yet to evoke Central govt’s response

Delhi Commission of Women chief Swati Maliwal should have, ideally, been sitting inside the AC cabin of her office in Delhi’s ITO. However, since April 13, Maliwal has been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the death penalty for those convicted of raping minor girls. Her list of demands, sent to…

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Son of last man hanged in Britain calls for death penalty to be brought back

Mark Price was three years old when his father Peter Allen, 21, and accomplice Gwynne Evans, 26, were hanged in August 1964 for murdering John West

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