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Melissa Lucio

Take Action for Melissa Sign Melissa’s petition here Share our tweets @DeathPenaltyWW Repost our images and stories on Instagram (@HerWholeTruth  @Deathpenaltyww) Case Background Melissa Lucio: A Victim of Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence Wrongly Convicted and Condemned to Die for the Accidental Death of Her Daughter   Melissa Lucio did not murder her daughter. She is on […]

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Brenda Andrew: Sex-Shamed to Death in Oklahoma

Case Background In the United States, most prosecutors typically do not seek the death penalty—and juries do not impose it—unless the crime involves a degree of cruelty or pain that distinguishes it from the thousands of other homicides that are carried out every year. In 2004, Brenda Andrew was convicted of killing her husband for […]

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Erica Sheppard: A Teenaged Victim of Rape, Domestic Violence and Discrimination

Case Background Erica Sheppard is a survivor of child abuse, domestic violence, and multiple rapes who is facing execution in Texas. At the age of nineteen, she fled a violent marriage and sought refuge at a battered women’s shelter, where she hoped to receive counseling and assistance. But the shelter would not keep her. Twenty-seven […]

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Lisa Montgomery

Lisa Montgomery endured relentless torture, rape, and sex trafficking, leading to lifelong mental illness. Lisa committed her crime while in the grip of a psychotic episode, and her case has been marked by gender discrimination, ineffective lawyering, and other serious errors. She was executed on January 13, 2021.

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