THANK GOODNESS! Melissa Lucio Granted Stay of Execution by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

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13. Indirectly, I think Beto is partially responsible

Abbott and his supporters in the State Government read the polls, too, and figured, probably correctly, that executing Melissa Lucio at this moment would be something the Texas voters might have held against them in the election this fall. It's nothing Beto did, but his catching up to Abbott in the one poll must have sounded an alarm in some right wing circles. Besides, it costs them noting to spare the life of someone who will probably be exonerated if the state doesn't kill her first.