MARIAH LUCIO - 2 yo (2007) - Rio Grande Valley TX

The Texas
Court of Criminal appeals has upheld the conviction and death sentence
of a Rio Grande Valley woman condemned for the death of her 2-year-old
daughter, one of her nine children.



Forty-three-year-old Melissa Elizabeth Lucio was convicted of killing her daughter, Mariah, in 2007.
The woman told authorities the
child had fallen down some stairs but emergency room physicians found
she had bruises covering her body, bite marks on her back, an arm that
had been broken weeks earlier and was missing hair that had been pulled
by the roots from her head. An autopsy showed the girl had been beaten
on her head and the injuries were not caused by a fall down some stairs.



Lucio is one of 10 women on Texas death row.
http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Death_Sentence_Upheld_For_Mom_Who_Killed_Daughter_129958793.html?ref=793