Lucio was addicted to cocaine and tested positive shortly after Mariah was born this prompted authorities to place her children in foster care.
Child Protective Services had previously investigated Lucio for allegations of child neglect, and they reported that Lucio's youngest children were often left in the care of their teenaged siblings. Mariah Alvarez was born to Melissa Lucio and Robert Alvarez in September 2004. Two more children (twins) were born while she was imprisoned. Lucio then had seven children with Robert Alvarez. She stated that he was often addicted to drugs and alcohol and was physically abusive. Lucio was married at the age of 16 and had her first five children with Guadalupe Lucio. Lucio says she was sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend for about two years, beginning when she was seven years old. Her father died when she was an infant, and the family moved to the Rio Grande Valley, where her mother had grown up, when she was a toddler. Melissa Lucio was born in Lubbock, Texas, on June 18, 1969, according to court records. Lucio's execution was set for April 27, 2022, but an appeals court granted her a stay on April 25, 2022. She has maintained her innocence, and Cornell Law School professor Sandra Babcock has called the prosecution "by far the weakest capital case I've ever seen". Lucio's case was the subject of a 2020 documentary, The State of Texas vs. Prosecutors said that Mariah's injuries were the result of physical abuse, while Lucio's attorneys say that her death was caused by a fall down the stairs two days prior. She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord. Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Hispanic descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. Death ( stay of execution issued on April 25, 2022)
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