Melissa Lucio's legal team have taken their appeal to spare her life straight to the governor. 

Lucio’s legal team submitted a new clemency application Tuesday that calls on the governor and Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to waive her execution.

Lucio is on death row after a 2008 conviction of killing her 2-year-old daughter. She has maintained her innocence.

Vanessa Potkin, one of Lucio’s attorneys, said there is new evidence jurors never saw in the 2008 trial that says Lucio’s daughter died from medical complications after a fall and not from physical abuse.

“She was especially vulnerable to the coercive interrogation tactics due to her history of abuse and trauma,” Potkin said of her client. “Abnormally high levels of suggestibility and compliance, which has been demonstrated through recent testing."

Lucio's execution date is scheduled for April 27. 

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