HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas woman convicted of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend’s 9-year-old son a decade ago has been executed.
Thirty-eight-year-old Lisa Coleman is the ninth convicted killer and second woman to receive a lethal injection in Texas this year. Nationally, she’s only the 15th woman executed since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed the death penalty to resume. During that same time, nearly 1,400 men have been executed.
Coleman was condemned for the death of Davontae Williams, whose emaciated body was found in July 2004 at the North Texas apartment Coleman shared with his mother.
He was about half the weight of a normal 9-year-old and had more than 250 injuries, including burns and ligature marks.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier in the day rejected a last-minute appeal.
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