In the last four years Kim Kardashian has been devoting more and more time to her activism in favor of a reform of the American criminal code, to the point that she decided to start studying law to better understand the legal system and also follow in the footsteps of his father, the lawyer Robert Kardashian.
In 2018 the celebrity got the then president of the United States Donald Trump pardoned a woman named Alice Marie Johnson who had been sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering, even though it was her first crime and was considered a non-violent offense.
Now Kim has set out to help a Mexican woman, Melissa Lucio, who is on death row in the state of Texas. The date of his execution has been set for April 27 and petitions calling for the sentence to be suspended or postponed have multiplied as that day draws near.
Melissa was convicted of death in 2007 of her 2-year-old daughter, which her other children maintain was an unfortunate accident. Her lawyers assure that she only confessed to having beaten the little girl to death after a very aggressive interrogation during which she was coerced using her addiction history against her, and they also ask for time to review the evidence that was presented then against her. Its objective is to demonstrate that the girl sustained the injuries she presented at the time of her death two days before, when she fell down the stairs of the apartment block where she lived, and not as a result of the alleged ill-treatment that the prosecution claimed there had been. suffered.
Kim has joined the petition of the organization The Innocence Project, which begs Governor Greg Abbott to intervene in favor of Melissa Lucio, and has used her social networks to publicize her story explaining that she firmly believes that the daughter of the condemnation died in her sleep as a result of the injuries caused by the fall.
This case has only succeeded in reaffirming the celebrity’s position against capital punishment and convincing her that she must continue to fight for it to be abolished in all states.
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