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State lawmakers including Reps. Joe Moody, Rafael Anchia, Alex Dominguez, Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and more met with Lucio in early April to join the fight.

\"Melissa Lucio checked all the boxes of the ideal culprit, right? She is a little Latina mom with too many children, with a drug addiction,\" Sabrina Van Tassel, the director of the documentary \"The State of Texas Vs. Melissa,\" said at a press conference Sunday.

\"After a three-year investigation, I'm here to tell you that she's not … The world's not going to be a better place if Melissa Lucio is executed tomorrow,\" Van Tessel said.

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Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via USA Today Network
PHOTO: John Lucio, with his wife Michelle Lucio, prays with Jennifer Allmon, right, Executive Director of the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, before a hearing about his mother, death row inmate Melissa Lucio, in Austin, Texas, on April 12, 2022.
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Lucio's children have also issued a plea to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to grant their mother clemency.

\"She's more worried about her kids than anything,\" Bobby Alvarez, Lucio's son, said in an interview with ABC station KVUE in Austin, Texas.

On Monday, a petition delivery and prayer vigil will be held outside Abbott's office at the Texas State Capitol, as protesters await action from the state district attorney, the Texas Board of Pardons & Paroles or Abbott.

Celebrity Kim Kardashian has also spoken out against the planned execution online.

\"So heartbreaking to read this letter from Melissa Lucio’s children begging for the state not to kill their mother,\" she wrote. \"There are so many unresolved questions surrounding this case and the evidence that was used to convict her.\"

So heartbreaking to read this letter from Melissa Lucio’s children begging for the state not to kill their mother. There are so many unresolved questions surrounding this case and the evidence that was used to convict her. pic.twitter.com/SjEtsfmZeq

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) April 7, 2022

If Lucio is executed, she would be the first Latina to be put to death by Texas and the first woman to be executed by the state since 2014.

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated when Lucio was sentenced. It has been updated.

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