A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Wants Her Freed.

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A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Wants Her Freed.

On the night that 2-year-old Mariah Alvarez died, a Child Protective Services investigator made her way to the Harlingen, Texas, police station to interview the toddler’s siblings. Mariah’s lifeless body had arrived at a local hospital covered in bruises, which authorities immediately assumed were evidence of abuse. Her mother, 38-year-old Melissa Lucio, who had a history of being investigated by the child welfare agency, tried to explain that M…