A woman who claims she falsely pleaded guilty to killing her two-year-old daughter in 2007 will learn today if the parole board wants to proceed with her controversial execution.Melissa Lucio, 53, is set to be executed Wednesday for the death of Mariah, one of her 14 children, in Harlingen, a city of about 75,000 in Texas' southern tip.Her legal team claims her confession was forced in a grueling five-hour interrogation carried out just hours after she found out her daughter had died, while pregnant with twins, and came after she denied the allegations more than 100 times.
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