Freed from Texas death row

Melissa Lucio's execution is scheduled for next week despite serious questions about whether she committed the crime. If she is innocent, it wouldn't be the first time Texas sent someone to death row for a crime they didn't commit.

A new project from the Houston Chronicle profiles 12 former Texas death row inmates who narrowly escaped execution after fighting for their lives for years — or in some cases, decades: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2022/texas-death-row-freed/