The State of Texas executed Lisa Coleman this evening, September 17, 2014, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her request for a stay. She was convicted a decade ago in Tarrant County in the starvation death of 9-year-old Davontae Williams. The boy’s mother, Marcella Williams, took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty and is serving a life sentence. She will be eligible for parole in 2044.
It was the ninth execution in Texas this year, out of 30 nationwide. Coleman was the sixth woman put to death in Texas since 1982 and the second in 2014. Read more from the Washington Post.