WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:44.6860000" NOTE recognizability:0.848 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.555 Time is running out for Melissa Lucio, NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:05.256 the only Latina currently on Texas death row. NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:05.260 --> 00:00:07.114 The South Texas mother is set NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:07.114 --> 00:00:09.057 to be executed on Wednesday for NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:09.057 --> 00:00:11.269 the 2007 death of her two year NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:11.269 --> 00:00:13.368 old daughter across the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:13.370 --> 00:00:15.863 Rallies have been held in a show of support NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:15.863 --> 00:00:18.100 for Lucio demonstrations in Houston, NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:18.100 --> 00:00:19.180 Dallas and Austin. NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:19.180 --> 00:00:20.980 Highlight the questions people have NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:20.980 --> 00:00:23.492 about this case and the call to action NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:23.492 --> 00:00:25.539 is stretching across the entire country. NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:25.540 --> 00:00:27.906 Rallies were scheduled in 13 other cities, NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:27.910 --> 00:00:31.258 but one man traveled hours to get to 1. NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:31.260 --> 00:00:33.270 Our Melissa Correa reports from NOTE Confidence: 0.86411107 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:34.476 Lucio's hometown Harlingen. NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:35.370 --> 00:00:37.435 As her dazed window we're on the NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:37.435 --> 00:00:39.079 countdown for Malaysia Lucia's case. NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:40.618 He's stepping up, I said, NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:42.790 what if this was my mother Magdaleno NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:42.790 --> 00:00:45.508 Rosa Avila just made a 16 hour drive from NOTE Confidence: 0.8229202 00:00:45.508 --> 00:00:47.730 Atlanta to the Rio Grande Valley. When NOTE Confidence: 0.8375497 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:49.286 you stand for justice? NOTE Confidence: 0.8375497 00:00:49.286 --> 00:00:51.620 You shouldn't have to wait till NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:51.620 --> 00:00:53.260 there's a lot of people. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:53.260 --> 00:00:54.885 People across Texas spent Saturday NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:54.885 --> 00:00:56.850 spotlighting the story of Melissa Lucio. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:56.850 --> 00:00:58.158 She's the Harlingen mom NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:58.158 --> 00:00:59.793 convicted of murdering her child. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:02.504 In 2007, a jury found her guilty of NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:02.504 --> 00:01:04.380 fatally beating the two year old, NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:04.380 --> 00:01:06.697 but Lucia's legal team says evidence can NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:06.697 --> 00:01:08.629 prove Mario's death was an accident. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:08.630 --> 00:01:10.265 A documentary supporters want watched NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:10.265 --> 00:01:12.220 also pinpoints issues with Lucia's trial, NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:12.220 --> 00:01:14.628 and her case is why Texas lawmakers are NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:14.628 --> 00:01:16.797 now studying the state's death penalty. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:17.460 People are NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:17.460 --> 00:01:19.875 saying, you know, there are so many. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:21.959 Errors with this case, you know five NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:24.319 of the jurors have said that if they NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:26.387 had known what they know now they NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:26.387 --> 00:01:28.515 would have not have voted to convict. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:30.010 But it was an accident. NOTE Confidence: 0.8473027 00:01:30.010 --> 00:01:30.910 Accidents do happen. NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:31.801 This Harlingen mother, NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:31.801 --> 00:01:33.583 who's studying the criminal justice system? NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:33.590 --> 00:01:35.080 Our system is very broken. NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:35.080 --> 00:01:36.724 Hopes either the governor or NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:36.724 --> 00:01:38.068 the Cameron County District NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:38.068 --> 00:01:39.560 Attorney spare Lucia's life so NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.331 her legal team can get more time. NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:43.140 The Board of Pardons and Paroles NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:44.670 will make a recommendation to NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:44.670 --> 00:01:46.398 Greg Abbott Monday, and we've seen NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.470 the stories of people who have NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:48.470 --> 00:01:50.220 been wrongly convicted in this. NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:51.726 We're talking about the death penalty, NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:51.730 --> 00:01:52.990 so you get one shot, NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:52.990 --> 00:01:54.466 and if there's evidence out there NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:54.466 --> 00:01:55.760 that can exonerate this woman, NOTE Confidence: 0.8361488 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.776 we need to take a stand and look NOTE Confidence: 0.8890391 00:01:57.780 --> 00:01:59.778 at it from a San Antonio ballpark to calls NOTE Confidence: 0.8890391 00:01:59.778 --> 00:02:01.560 for clemency outside the state Capitol. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:03.650 --> 00:02:05.500 Pleas from a Houston park and NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:06.732 solidarity along Dallas streets. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:06.740 --> 00:02:08.592 Pardons and parole should hear it NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:08.592 --> 00:02:10.760 from the heart, and so should the NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:10.760 --> 00:02:11.392 governor tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:11.392 --> 00:02:13.288 Melissa Lucio just wrapped up a NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:13.288 --> 00:02:15.078 visit with some of her children. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:16.675 If killed, she will become NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:16.675 --> 00:02:17.951 the first Latina executed NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:17.951 --> 00:02:19.718 in Texas in the modern era. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:21.876 Lawyers from Melissa Lucio say so far, NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:21.880 --> 00:02:24.043 no court has ever considered the evidence NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:24.043 --> 00:02:26.018 they'd like to present the District NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:26.018 --> 00:02:28.335 Attorney here in Cameron County says he NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:28.391 --> 00:02:30.591 is willing to pull the April 27th death NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:30.591 --> 00:02:33.020 warrant if the courts or the governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:35.996 Not intervene first, we're now off to Austin, NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.274 where the State Board of Pardons NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:38.274 --> 00:02:40.206 and Paroles will consider the NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:40.206 --> 00:02:41.946 case on Monday in Harlingen. NOTE Confidence: 0.84727246 00:02:41.950 --> 00:02:44.680 I'm Melissa Correa KH. OU 11 news.