Evil: Lisa Ann Coleman was convicted of killing her girlfriend's 9-year-old boy Davontae Williams
The 38-year-old, only the 15th woman to be executed since 1976, is said to have gasped and asked witnesses: "Tell them I finished strong". America has carried out the rare execution of a woman after she had spent eight years on death row over the torture and starving of a nine-year-old boy. Lisa Ann Coleman, of Arlington, Texas, told witnesses “tell them I finished strong” before dying by lethal injection. The 38-year-old was found guilty of the 2004 murder of schoolboy Davontae Williams, who had been beaten and bound, and whose body was found with more than 250 scars,
She, along with her girlfriend, Marcella Williams, who was the boy’s mother, also starved him to death. At the time paramedics found him he weighed just two and a half stone. Coleman was given a lethal injection shortly 6.13pm on Wednesday before being pronounced dead at 6:24pm.
Prison officials described the execution was “very peaceful” and that
they only heard a “short gasp” before she died. Before the lethal drug
was injected into her inside the execution chamber at the Texas’
Huntsville prison, Coleman expressed love for her family and thanked her
lawyers.
“I just want to tell my family I love them, my son, I love him,” she said. “God is good ... I’m done.”
Victim: Davontae Sanford
She
smiled and blew kisses at the supporters gathered and added: “God bless
you all.” Before her death she spent time playing word games with other
inmates before being transferred to Huntsville for the lethal
injection. Five family members and friends witnessed the execution.
No
one showed up to represent the victim, Davontae. Coleman was living
with her girlfriend Williams, in Arlington the boy’s starved corpse was
found on July 26, 2004.
She is currently serving a life sentence for his death, after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors before the trial in 2006.
Coleman
was the 517th person to be executed in the state since 1982, the year
Texas reinstated the death penalty following a 1976 Supreme Court
decision that allowed capital punishment to resume. She is the ninth
person executed in the Lone Star State this year and only the 14th woman
in 38 years.
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