Execute Woman - Starving & Abusing 9-year-old

Texas set to execute woman convicted of starving 9-year-old



(Reuters) - A woman convicted of the 2004 starving death of a 9-year-old boy is scheduled to die on Wednesday by lethal injection at a Texas state prison, authorities said.

Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, would be the second woman executed in the United States this year and the 15th since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Coleman is scheduled to be put to death after 6 p.m. Central Time (7 p.m. EDT) at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. She would also be the 517th prisoner put to death in Texas, the most of any state since 1976.

Investigators were called to Coleman's house in July 2004, where they found Davontae Williams dead with a disfigured ear, swollen hands and ligature marks on his wrists and ankles, according to court records.

An autopsy determined that Williams, son of Coleman's long-time girlfriend, Marcella Williams, had died from malnutrition and pneumonia and weighed just 35 pounds, court records said.

He had been beaten with a golf club and bound by an extension cord, investigators found. His body also showed signs of having been treated with over-the-counter medications, ointments, creams and bandages, court records said.

There was evidence that suggested he was fed chicken noodle soup and Pedialyte before he died, but a doctor testified that the food he received was "inadequate ... too late, and possibly too much," court records said.

Coleman was convicted of capital murder by a jury in 2006 and sentenced to death. Williams also was convicted of capital murder. Williams was sentenced to life in prison and is eligible for parole in 30 years, according to prison records.

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Cases like these are always hard to bear.
While it may be impossible to forgive on a personal level, the society as a whole should be strong enough not to resort to death penalties in this day and age.

Cases like these are always hard to bear.
While it may be impossible to forgive on a personal level, the society as a whole should be strong enough not to resort to death penalties in this day and age.

Cases like these are always hard to bear.
While it may be impossible to forgive on a personal level, the society as a whole should be strong enough not to resort to death penalties in this day and age.

Instead of the death penalty what would you do?

The state of Texas murders a negro, no one bats an eye.
Some vigilante cop further north murders a negro, everyone... loses their minds.

The state of Texas murders a negro, no one bats an eye.
Some vigilante cop further north murders a negro, everyone... loses their minds.

North Korean labor camp.

Cases like these are always hard to bear.
While it may be impossible to forgive on a personal level, the society as a whole should be strong enough not to resort to death penalties in this day and age.

Instead of the death penalty what would you do?

So society should foot the bill to keep these types of people alive in prison?

Unfortunately this wasn't in North Korea and I doubt the freedom loving Americans would go for that either. Got to work with what you got.

Again: it's more expensive to kill them.

Please tell me you can see the difference between those two things.

Put the *** in prison and keep her there where she belongs.

Again: it's more expensive to kill them.

They're both murder, as much as I hate to agree with him on something.

Again: it's more expensive to kill them.

The execution is not the expensive part.

Like everything else in life, it comes down to justification. Whether or not we find the act to be justifiable.

Actually killing them isn't more expensive. It's everything that leads up to it, thanks to our broken system.