Cenk Uygur
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Mother Faces Execution Despite Coerced Confession
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April 23, 2022
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13:03Now PlayingTexas mother Melissa Lucio is set to be executed by the state for allegedly killing her twoyearold child in 2007 despite mountains of evidence that suggest otherwise. Specifically, officers interrogating Lucio applied the “Reid Technique” during her interrogation, a tactic that often leads to false admissions of guilt and wrongful convictions, as well as blatantly lying about the evidence of the case to force an admission of guilt from Lucio. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Bridget Todd discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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“On the evening of 15 February 2007, a team of five police officers in Cameron county, Texas, began an interrogation of a Mexican American mother whom they suspected of having murdered her two-year-old child.
Melissa Lucio was in a vulnerable condition. She was pregnant with twins and in the grip of shock and grief. Just two hours earlier her youngest child Mariah had been pronounced dead having fallen unconscious.
The officers did not let the suspect’s vulnerabilities get in the way of the inquisition. Over almost six hours, stretching late into the night, they applied to Lucio the notorious “Reid Technique” – a controversial interrogation method that has led to numerous wrongful convictions in the US.
As trained to do under the system, the officers put their faces within inches of Lucio’s, screaming at her that she “had to know” what had happened to her child. They had “lots of evidence” that she was to blame for the death, they said, forcing her to view photographs of the girl’s lifeless body."
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