Correction: US-Texas-Execution story
John Lucio, with his wife, Michelle Lucio, prays with Jennifer Allmon, right, Executive Director of the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, before a hearing by the Interim Study Committee on Criminal Justice Reform about his mother, death row inmate Melissa Lucio, at the Capitol, in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. A bipartisan majority of the Texas House of Representatives is calling for clemency for Melissa Lucio who was convicted of capital murder in 2008 after the death of her daughter. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
HOUSTON (AP) — In a story published April 12, 2022, about the planned execution of Melissa Lucio, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Lucio would be the first Latina executed by Texas. Lucio would be the first Latina executed by Texas since 1863.
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