the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death row in . Then both Stevens and Frank also jumped into the fray, and the weapon discharged. FREEDOM TUBE 3.64K subscribers Subscribe 630K views 2. intentionally withholding "numerous items" of exculpatory evidence, List of women on death row in the United States, "Linda Carty: 'I'm not afraid of dying. The State of Texas vs. Melissa is a telling and compelling snapshot of the brutality of everyday life in capitalist America. The State of Texas vs. Melissa is a character study about a woman on death row who is on her last appeal, and is about to be executed, commented director Van Tassel in an interview with Women and Hollywood . [17] Her services ended when she was arrested on drug charges. You will see fascinating shots from the deep seas and up in the air, capturing great stories and pictures from everything our beautiful and interesting planet has to offer. January 18, 2020 U.S. capital punishment - share of prisoners with a death sentence 2020, by gender. Ninety percent of court cases are won by the State. In May, however, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a 90-day stay of execution effective June 10 pending ongoing appeals. Frank's attorney stated she would appeal the ruling to the state's supreme court, which had already overruled both of Marullo's death warrants. [22][23][24][25] However, on May 3, 2010, the Court refused to review the case, denying certiorari. This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 21:45. Stay current with additional news, entertainment, and lifestyle programming from American Heroes Channel, BET Her, Boomerang, CNBC World, Cooking Channel, Crime + Investigation, Destination America, Discovery Family, Discovery Life, Magnolia Network, Military History Channel, MTV2, MTV Classic, Nick Toons,Science, and Teen Nick. Although Frank graduated near the top of her academy class, her tenure with the NOPD was mostly undistinguished. Officials set her execution date for April 27. On May 22, 2007, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled 52 that the death penalty should be upheld. In a March 2022 letter to the Board of Pardons and Paroles and to Governor Abbott, eighty-three members of the Texas House of Representatives, including both Democrats and Republicans, signed a letter stating that executing Lucio would be "a miscarriage of justice". At the time of the murders Antoinette Frank was working for the New Orleans Police Department as an officer. This appeal was rejected on September 19, 2009. The United Kingdom contends in its amicus curiae brief[23] in the US Supreme Court that it regards the US as having breached its obligations under international law. Lucio is on death row and was scheduled to be executed on April 27.. May 15, 2018. She did fall down. [15] In a new round of appeals, defense attorneys argued they had had too little time to review the voluminous record before the deadline for filing appeals. I had never been incarcerated. In cases like this where you have a child death, there are experts that come in and do research and analysis, her attorneys decided to go to trial without allowing those experts to complete their work, said White. [27], In 2018, she petitioned the Supreme Court again, arguing that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals "refused to consider the cumulative prejudice" of constitutional errors in her case, including ineffective assistance of counsel and the State intentionally withholding "numerous items" of exculpatory evidence; however, the Court denied certiorari. After midnight on March 4, 1995, Frank and Lacaze visited Kim Anh, a Vietnamese restaurant run by the Vu family in New Orleans East. Women Texas Continuing an unparalleled pattern of rulings adverse to Texas death-row prisoners, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reinstated the conviction and death sentence of a mother convicted of killing her two-year-old daughter in what, the defense has argued, was actually an accidental fall. NOPD officials also thought having more African-Americans like Frank on the force would ease longstanding racial tensions in the majority-black city. After that, Quoc Vu and his mother Nguyet sold the location, re-opening the restaurant in Harahan, and moving their residence to Metairie, where they said they felt safer. [1] Lucio's execution was set for April 27, 2022, but an appeals court granted her a stay on April 25, 2022. Her story became the subject of the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa. They did not know the whereabouts of their other sister and brother, Ha and Cuong Vu, who had been sweeping the dining room floors when Frank entered the restaurant. [11][12] A pathologist, Dr. Norma J. Farley, testified that the childs autopsy indicated that she did not die from falling down stairs, and instead her injuries were consistent with a death from blunt force trauma. The State of Texas wants to kill me, Melissa bluntly tells the camera in the movies opening sequence. According to the warrant, Frank was scheduled for execution by lethal injection on July 15, 2008. If a majority of the Board of Pardons and Paroles were to recommend it, Governor Greg Abbott could grant clemency. The authorities in Texas failed to inform the British Consulate until after Carty's conviction and sentencing. [34], In 2012, she appeared on a segment of Werner Herzog's series On Death Row, broadcast on the Discovery Channel program Investigation Discovery. In February, Lucio's family members gathered in Austin to say that she is innocent and should be released from prison. Hulu has acquired U.S rights to Sabrina Van Tassel's documentary 'The State of Texas vs. Melissa,' which was selected for Tribeca in 2020. . The filmmaker added that it is hard to imagine how traumatic a death sentence is for a family and the collateral damage it creates. Although Frank's attorneys had subpoenaed 39 witnesses, they didn't call a single one. The intruders left, taking the baby with them. September 27, 2021. The documentary outlines why her conviction was an egregious miscarriage of justice. We decided to follow five of them. [8] She was formally sentenced to death on October 20, 1995, and sent to Death Row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) in St. Gabriel, near Baton Rouge. At that point, Wallace saw Lacaze and noticed he was holding a gun. In this episode of Women of Death Row, Mariel tells the story of Dame Alice Kyteler, a woman condemned and burned to death at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland on November 3, 1324. In an interview for a documentary broadcast by the UK's Channel 4, The British Woman on Death Row (November 28, 2011), the United Kingdom's Consul General in Houston at the time, Paul Lynch, stated that this breach:[32]. However, she was smitten by Lacaze's "bad boy" persona, and their relationship soon turned sexual. She was placed under arrest. Carty has appealed her conviction,[6][7][8] with her most recent petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari being denied by the Supreme Court on November 13, 2018. Dive in these women's lives full of horror, hope, death, and love, in one of the most terrible places in the USA, death row. Williams was a colleague of Frank who had been working as the security guard that night to supplement his policeman's salary. As of January 1, 2016 there were 55 women on death row. In this chilling absolute documentary, Trevor meets inmate Fredrick Baer who killed a mother and her 5-year-old child in cold-blooded murder who is still hoping to escape the lethal injection on death row and avoid capital punishment. Written and directed by Sabrina Van Tassel French-American filmmaker Sabrina Van Tassel's heart-wrenching documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa, now streaming on Hulu, chronicles the case. The mother of 14 children, Melissa talks about her poverty-stricken, abusive background. Lucio then had seven children with Robert Alvarez. In February 2002, she was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder in 2001 of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez in order to steal Rodriguez's newborn son. Three older children went to live in Houston with their father, and Lucio regained custody of the others in late 2006.[5]. Who are they? This constitutes 1.87% of the total death row population of 2,943 persons.In the past 100 years, over 40 women have been executed. Author Caitlin Rother said Skylar is now wearing women's clothes. The Evers were devout Christians who enjoyed gathering for family meals, holding group prayers, and living a quiet life. As Williams fell, Lacaze continued to shoot him in the head and back, mortally wounding him. [18][19] No female has been executed by the State of Louisiana since Toni Jo Henry died in the State's Electric chair in 1942. [2], On November 25, 1994, Frank handled an incident in which Rogers Lacaze, a known drug dealer, had been shot. On the surface, she checks all the boxes of the ideal culprit. The first is accused of kidnapping and killing her neighbor to abduct her baby, while the second allegedly mistreated her two-year-old daughter. Ind. He joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1991 and was a married father of two. International Committee of the Fourth International. They told me that I was the first person in 13 years to ask anything about her casethat even her lawyer at the time of her trial had never tried to meet them. Thats a fact. Stream our library of shows and movies without ad interruptions. On February 21, she was sentenced to death by lethal injection. [26] The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has the option to recommend clemency to the Governor of Texas. Lynn Marie Gracey, a private investigator who worked on Melissas appeal, remarks about Gilman: I think the guy knew that he sabotaged the case so bad that he didnt want anybody to rework it, re-investigate it. Documentary Crime Drama 60 women are waiting for their execution on death row. While some of them hope to have their cases reviewed. Nationwide, as of October, there are over 2,500 men and women sitting on death row that consist of 1,062 Black people, 1,076 White people, 343 Latinos, 24 Native Americans, 47 Asians and one. [2] Carty studied pharmacology at the University of Houston. The investigator also questioned Frank about trying to buy 9mm ammunition for Lacaze at Walmart on the day before the Kim Anh murders, but stated that she was a police officer and that there was nothing wrong with her buying ammunition. 2007)", "State supreme court blocks ex-cop's execution date", "Antoinette Frank case to stay in Marullo's courtroom", "Kim Anh trial judge's testimony sought during appeal seeking post-conviction relief", "Death Row for Ex-Cop Who Killed Partner and 2 Others", "Victims' family in cop killing, triple murder stunned by retrial", "Rogers LaCaze granted new trial in '95 eastern New Orleans triple homicide", "Appellate court overturns new trial order for Rogers Lacaze in 1995 New Orleans triple murder", "Louisiana women's prison shuttered after flood, nearly 1,000 inmates relocated to various lockups", "Rogers Lacaze, Antoinette Frank's co-conspirator, no longer facing death after resentencing", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antoinette_Frank&oldid=1142930935, This page was last edited on 5 March 2023, at 02:18. In the United States, the executions of 54 women prisoners are currently "on hold.". I did not know what to expect. She observes sadly that I often think about my daughter Mariah. Get Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+, all with ads, for $12.99/mo. The robbers fled the restaurant, and Frank dropped Lacaze off at a nearby apartment complex, both knowing that witnesses were left behind. Carty told her husband on 15 May that she would have a baby boy the next day. You will be with him in his cell, with his lawyer, with his family and spiritual leader all the wayright up to the moment of his EXECUTION! Lucio's case was the subject of a 2020 documentary, The State of Texas vs. Melissa. Born in 1969, Melissa, from Harlingen in south Texas, was convicted of the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who died of blunt-force trauma to the head on February 17, 2007. [7] [5] Baker Botts, the law firm handling Carty's appeal, have argued that her trial attorney, Jerry Guerinot, handled her defense in an incompetent manner. Melissas family, and some of her children, felt so railroaded by the justice system, they didnt trust anyone anymore. The director further explained that Melissas children have been placed all over Texas. Lucio, a 53-year-old Mexican-American mum, was found guilty in 2008 of the death of her two-year-old daughter Mariah, who died in 2007 after falling down the stairs.. Antoinette Frank is on Louisiana death row for the murders of three people including a fellow police officer. Reprieve claims that her defense attorney did not present mitigating evidence. It was overturned in July 2019 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but the state of Texas appealed the ruling. Lacaze had slipped behind Williams and shot him in the neck, severing his spinal cord and instantly paralyzing him. [17] While working as an informant, she provided information leading to two arrests. It is a very unjust system you may well be on death row because you have a court-appointed attorney who doesnt have the means to defend you and a district attorneys office who has all the means in the world to get you convicted. During her litigation, Lucio earned notoriety as the first Hispanic woman on. Frank refused to discuss anything regarding the murders - every time the investigator asked her a question, she told him to "look it up in the record" or asserted her innocence. Contact the ADOC. Read the Clemency Petition here. Kirby said that Lacaze deserved a new trial because one of the jurors hid the fact that he was a Louisiana state trooper and previously worked as a railroad policeman. At times, they thought Frank veered into irrational behavior. Who are they? His main tip-off had been using Williams' Chevron credit card at a Chevron station in Gretna just minutes after the robbery and murders. In police uniform, Frank exited the squad car and told Wallace and Stevens to get out and go to the back of the car. Frank then told the man that "Lacaze was the good guy" and that Wallace was the one causing the problems. Then she directed them to a location where both cars were found: the live baby was in one, and the suffocated victim was in the back of the other. [5] When Chau went to pay Williams, Chau noticed Frank approaching the restaurant. Melissa Lucio's case has gained national attention. [17] This decision was subsequently overturned in an en banc hearing of the same court[18] and Lucio remained on death row. 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[14][15], In 1992, Carty was convicted of auto theft and impersonation of an FBI agent. There are days where I wish I could leave this place and be with Mariah., Melissas original defense attorney, Peter Gilman, now works for the Texas district attorneys office. As early as August 1993, Frank's superiors wanted to send her back to the academy for further training. She has mainly focused on social issues such as underage sex trafficking, children in ultra-right-wing movements, women in prison and the Holocaust. Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. 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A sister, Diane, asserts that she was a very loving person, but she had a rough life. Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. If you watch the documentary, you can see the stairs that she fell on," John Vincent Lucio. 60 women are waiting for their execution on death row. "[10], During the trial, Lucio's recorded statements from her interrogation were described as a confession by Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos, who was seeking re-election at the time. [13], Lucio was pregnant with twins at the time of Mariah's death, and authorities compelled her to place them for adoption after delivering them while in jail. Linda Anita Carty (born 5 October 1958) is a Kittitian -American [a] former schoolteacher who is on death row in Texas. Frank currently resides at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, the only woman on the state's death row. Lucio was married at the age of 16 and had her first five children with Guadalupe Lucio. Lucio has a chance to prove her innocence and save her own . The family has been homeless for the past six weeks. Enjoy stories about nature, wildlife, culture, people, history and more to come. Child Protective Services had previously investigated Lucio for allegations of child neglect, and they reported that Lucio's youngest children were often left in the care of their teenaged siblings. [11], In 1993, a year and a half before the murders at the Kim Anh, Frank's father had stayed at her home for a time before she then reported him missing. According to court documents when the girls remains were weighed she weighed in just over thirty pounds. Lucio is scheduled to be executed on April 27. Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh . Box 301501 Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1501 webmaster@doc.alabama.gov He said, among other problems, Lucio didnt have adequate counsel. Do you want it?" THEREFORE IT IS ALLOWED UNDER FAIR USE.This video has been uploaded following reasons:1) To demonstrate to the public the harsh reality of what a sentence of \"DEATH\" really means.2) To show the full horror of what it means to get it wrong when an innocent man is executed.3) The lasting damage it often causes to those carrying out the sentenceon all sides.4) The data shows the death penalty does not work as a deterrent.5) Too many innocent people are executed.Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Antoinette Renee Frank (born April 30, 1971) is a former officer of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the Vietnamese-American family who ran the establishment, and fellow NOPD officer Ronald A. Williams II.
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