In July 2004, Coleman was living in a Texas apartment with a friend, Marcella Williams, and her son, Davontae Williams. The childs body weighed about 36 pounds, about half the normal weight of a 9-year-old child. Williams, 33, is serving a life sentence in prison for her role in the death.
Date: Sep 18, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Texas Woman, Lisa Coleman, Executed For Starving Girlfriend's 9-Year-Old Son ...
fifteenth woman to be executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court resumed the death penalty in 1976. Nearly 1,400 men have been executed in the same period. Colemanwas sentenced to death after she was found guilty of killing Davontae Williams, her partner Marcella Williams son in July 2004.
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 (less than 16kg), court records said.
Date: Sep 18, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Texas prepares for a rare occurrence: An execution of a woman
old son, a decade ago. Davontae was emaciated, weighing 35 pounds at the time of his death in 2004, and had multiple injuries on his body. Coleman and Marcella Williams, her longtime girlfriend, had restrained him and deprived him of food, according tothe Texas Department of Criminal Justice.There is clear and convincing evidence that both Lisa Coleman and Marcella Williams abused Davontae Williams, the petition states. Lisa Coleman does not deny that she did things to Davontae Williams that she should not have done.But her attorneys have asked for a stayand write thatshe is only being put to death because Texas wants to make sure someone pays for what happened to Davontae. (Marcella Williams pleaded guilty in exchange for a life sentence.)
Coleman was living with her girlfriend, Marcella Williams, in an Arlington apartment complex when paramedics discovered the starved corpse of a 9-year-old boy on July 26, 2004. He had been beaten, bore 250 scars and weighed 35 pounds at the time of his death, about half the typicalweight for a chil
Date: Sep 17, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Texas Woman Executed For Starvation, Torture, And Death Of 9-Year-Old Boy
old victim only weighed 35 pounds, which astonished the police officers who took the body from the house. The autopsy report showed that the child died from pneumonia and malnutrition. The house was said to be shared with the victim's mother and the suspect's long-time girlfriend, Marcella Williams.
ttorneys for Lisa Coleman, 38, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the execution, scheduled for Wednesday night. 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, Marcella Williams.
Date: Sep 17, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Woman Executed in Texas for Having Starved 9-Year-Old Boy
Her conviction followed the murder and torture of Davontae Williams, the 9 year old boy whose emaciated body was found in 2004 in Colemans and her girlfriends (Marcella Williams) apartment. When paramedics arrived at the scene, they were shocked to find a 36 pound boy (half the weight that a norma