A Texas state lawmaker has introduced legislation to abolish the death penalty in the state amid a high-profile case in the ...

Two Texas death cases made headlines last week; both involved a parent who was convicted of killing their 2-year old child.

Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted in her daughter's death, spoke out exclusively to ABC News since a ...

Lucio was convicted of the 2007 killing of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a community of around 71,000 people ...

Melissa Lucio, accused of killing her daughter, Mariah, in 2008 “is actually innocent; she did not kill her daughter,” said ...

The mother long maintained her innocence and that her 2-year-old daughter died after accidentally falling down the stairs.

Lucio has long maintained she is innocent and her daughter Mariah died of a head injury sustained in an accidental fall down ...

Judge Arturo Nelson declares Texas inmate Melissa Lucio "actually innocent" in the 2007 death of her daughter.

The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is ...

Melissa Lucio, who is also innocent of a similar crime that never happened, was recently found to be innocent by a Texas ...

The Texas judge who oversaw a trial that convicted a mother of killing her 2-year-old daughter and sentenced her to death now ...

A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her ...