TEXAS EXECUTES LESBIAN TORTURE AND STARVATION MURDERESS

When paramedics found Davontae Williams dead they believed he was only 3-5 when he was actually nine years old

Lisa Ann Coleman and Marcella Williams were cohabitating in a lesbian relationship in Arlington, Texas when Marcella’s nine-year-old son Davontae Williams died in their apartment on July 26, 2004.

Here is how the Associated Press described Davontae’s death:

When paramedics responding to a 911 call arrived at a North Texas apartment, they found on the bathroom floor a dead boy clad only in bandages and a disposable diaper. He appeared to be 3 to 5 years old. Further investigation determined Davontae Williams actually was 9.

His emaciated body weighed only 36 pounds, about half of what a boy his age should weigh. Evidence showed he had been restrained repeatedly at his wrists and ankles. A pediatrician later would testify that he had more than 250 distinct injuries, including burns from cigarettes or cigars and scars from ligatures, and that a lack of food made him stop growing.

Coleman and Williams were tried separately for capital murder. Coleman was tried first and sentenced to death in 2006. When Williams saw what happened to her lover, she quickly copped a plea to avoid the death penalty. Now 33, she was given a life term and will not be eligible for parole until 2044.

According to the AP, “evidence showed child welfare officials repeatedly investigated Marcella Williams but would lose track of her because she kept moving to evade them, fearing they would take away her son and two younger daughters.”

On Wednesday evening Lisa Ann Coleman was pronounced dead 12 minutes after a single dose of pentobarbital was injected into her veins. The execution proceeded without a hitch.

Coleman, 38, became the ninth murderer executed by Texas so far this year. She is the sixth woman put to death by the Lone Star State since 1982 and only the 15th woman executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Since that time, nearly 1,400 men have been executed nationwide. With Coleman’s death, Texas has executed 517 murderers since 1982.

The murder of Davontae was so unspeakably horrendous that no African-American group came forth to claim that Lisa Ann Coleman was sentenced to death because she was black.