Melissa Lucio has been spared from execution - for now - and a court will review new evidence that her attorneys claim shows she did not kill her two-year-old daughter and that she gave a coerced confession due to years of abuse.Lucio, 53, had been set to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2007 death of Mariah, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals delayed her execution Monday.If put to death, Lucio would be the first Latina executed by Texas since 1863, and the first woman the state has put to death since 2014.
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