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

[Jilly_in_VA]

19. Well

Not to throw cold water on it or anything, but it's a STAY, not a clemency or even a new trial, just an order for consideration of new evidence. Texas prosecutors being what they are, I hold kind of faint hope. I guess that makes me an extreme cynic, but at least she isn't being executed in the near future. You know Gov. Hot Wheels will never grant clemency, or even reduce her sentence to life, being the vindictive awhole he is.

My personal belief is that the death penalty is immoral except in cases so extreme as to be equated with someone like Putin. Even then I would prefer nature to take its course.