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Have you ever experienced something so traumatic that you had a hard time trying to remember what happened?
Why would you ever confess to something you didn't do?
According to research, women are more likely than men to be convicted of crimes, when no crime occurred. Data from the National Registry of Exonerations, which accounts for 3,062 exonerated individuals, estimates that nearly 70% of women who were exonerated had been convicted of crimes that didn’t occur.
Was this the situation with Melissa Lucio?
A psychologist and law professor are here to take us through this discussion and to field listener calls. Also, we'll be joined by the executive director of Death Penalty Action, the organization that has been coordinating the Free Melissa Lucio campaign.
Guests:
- Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
- Author of Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights (book to be released in June)
- Psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
- Director of the Center for Violence Prevention
- Co-founder and Executive Director of Death Penalty Action, the organization that has been coordinating the Free Melissa Lucio campaign on behalf of Melissa Lucio’s son, John Lucio.
- Learn more at www.FreeMelissaLucio.org
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