09-17-2014, 06:38 PM
Tonight the state of Texas is scheduled to execute Lisa Ann Coleman, Convicted Child Murderer
Sometimes I disagree with the death penalty -- it's case by case for me even for similar crimes. In this one, I have no qualms about this woman being killed by the state.
She will be the second woman executed this year in Texas and the 15th woman to be executed in the country since 1976.
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In 2004, Lisa Ann Coleman ^ and her girlfriend Marcella Williams, were arrested for the death Marcella's 9 year old son, Davontae. When paramedics arrived at their apartment, Davontae was covered in bandages and dead on the bathroom floor. Paramedics noted that he appeared to be 3 - 5 years old. He was actually 9, he weighed 35 pounds.
The couple had starved him to death, along with beating him, burning him with cigarettes, and keeping him locked in a closet. Davontae had 250 wounds all over his body. CPS had investigated Marcella Williams multiple times, but they couldn't keep track of her because the couple kept moving in order to avoid having her two younger daughters removed from the home.
Lisa Coleman went to trial and was found guilty. It was a capital case because she was charged with both kidnapping and murder (due to the confinement in the closet). Marcella Williams took a plea deal instead of going to trial -- she was sentenced to life in prison. I believe Marcella Williams deserves to be meeting the same fate tonight as Lisa Coleman.
Lisa's Coleman appealed on grounds that the kidnapping charge was invalid and that she had incompetent trial. Those appeals have been denied.
Sometimes I disagree with the death penalty -- it's case by case for me even for similar crimes. In this one, I have no qualms about this woman being killed by the state.
She will be the second woman executed this year in Texas and the 15th woman to be executed in the country since 1976.
In 2004, Lisa Ann Coleman ^ and her girlfriend Marcella Williams, were arrested for the death Marcella's 9 year old son, Davontae. When paramedics arrived at their apartment, Davontae was covered in bandages and dead on the bathroom floor. Paramedics noted that he appeared to be 3 - 5 years old. He was actually 9, he weighed 35 pounds.
The couple had starved him to death, along with beating him, burning him with cigarettes, and keeping him locked in a closet. Davontae had 250 wounds all over his body. CPS had investigated Marcella Williams multiple times, but they couldn't keep track of her because the couple kept moving in order to avoid having her two younger daughters removed from the home.
Lisa Coleman went to trial and was found guilty. It was a capital case because she was charged with both kidnapping and murder (due to the confinement in the closet). Marcella Williams took a plea deal instead of going to trial -- she was sentenced to life in prison. I believe Marcella Williams deserves to be meeting the same fate tonight as Lisa Coleman.
Lisa's Coleman appealed on grounds that the kidnapping charge was invalid and that she had incompetent trial. Those appeals have been denied.