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Rachelle Zoca attend a vigil for Melissa Lucio at the Basilica Of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle National Shrine in San Juan, Texas, on April 22, 2022.Delcia Lopez鈥擳he Monitor/APBy Sanya MansoorApril 28, 2022 5:23 PM EDTThe highest criminal court in Texas on Monday halted the execution of Melissa Luciomdash;a mother whose murder conviction in the death of her 2-year-old daughter has come under increasing scrutiny amid doubts about her guilt.Lucio, 53, was sentenced to be executed by lethal injection on April 27 for the 2007 death of her daughter, Mariah. But after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted her a stay of execution, her case now heads to a lower court for a hearing which will consider new evidence.I thank God for my life. I have always trusted in Him. I am grateful the Court has given me the chance to live and prove my innocence. Mariah is in my heart today and always, Lucio said in a statement provided by her lawyer later on Monday. If Luciorsquo execut stanley cup ion would have taken place, she would be the first Latina in the U.S. to be killed in such a manner since the death stanley cup penalty was reinstated in 1976. For now, Lucio and her family are looking forward to a new trial. Her family is ecstatic. Theyrsquo;re stanley cup relieved. They were suffering from so much fear and anxiety and theyrsquo;re hopeful going forward that we will prove Melissarsquo innocence and that shersquo;ll be released, says Tivon Schardl, one of Luciorsquo attorneys Onel Kremlin Critic Gunned Down in Moscow Ahead of Anti-Putin March
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, left, smiles as he answers a question from moderator Mike McGuire during the keynote luncheon of the 9th annual Southeast Venture Conference and Digital Summit Charlotte at the Le Meridien Charlotte on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Charlotte, N.C.Charlotte Observermdash;TNS via Getty ImagesBy Tom Huddleston / FortuneMay 26, 2015 10:09 AM EDTSteve Wozniak reaffirmed his staunch support for dig salomon ital privacy in an interview over the weekend in which the Apple co-founder called National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden a hero.Wozniak, who helped build Apple stock symbol=AAPL] with Steve Jobs before leaving the af1 tech giant in the mid- af1 1980 , has expressed an affinity for Snowden in the past. Over the weekend, Wozniak reiterated his admiration for Snowden in an interview with ArabianBusiness in which the inventor said Snowden gave up his own life . . . to help the rest of us.Wozniak went on to tell the publication more on his feelings about Snowden:Total hero to me; total hero, ; he gushes. Not necessarily what he exposed, but the fact that he internally came from his own heart, his own belief in the United States Constitution, what democracy and freedom was about. And now a federal judge has said that NSA data collection was unconstitutional. Two years ago, Wozniak favorably compared Snowden to Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Last year,