USA , Texas: This woman was just executed – what she did to deserve it?

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A Texas woman was executed Wednesday by lethal injection as punishment for torturing and starving the 9-year-old child of her girlfriend.

38-year-old Lisa Ann Coleman died minutes after being injected with pentobarbital.

From News 10 ABC:

Coleman became the ninth convicted killer and second woman to receive lethal injection in Texas this year. Nationally, she’s the 15th woman executed since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed the death penalty to resume. During that same time, nearly 1,400 men have been put to death.

Coleman, who was convicted in 2006 of kidnapping and starving to death Davontae Williams, spent Wednesday afternoon in a holding cell inside the Huntsville Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary. She was to be offered a final meal of either chicken or pork. She spent the morning talking with visitors, occasionally crying, and at other times laughing, according to prison officials.

The 9-year-old she starved to death weighed only 35.8 pounds at the time the medical examiner looked at him and a pediatrician would later say that the boy had 250 different injuries, “including burns from cigarettes or cigars and scars from ligatures, and that a lack of food made him stop growing.”

The boy’s mother, Marcella, is serving a life sentence.