Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, has been executed for murdering, starving and torturing her lesbian lover’s 9-year-old disabled son Davontae Marcel Williams. A handful of family members were present when Lisa Ann Coleman received the lethal injection. Coleman told them she loved them, God is good and that she finished strong.
On Wednesday, at 6:24 p.m. Lisa Ann Coleman became the 9th person executed in Texas this year. Coleman was put to death with the drug Pentobarbital in the execution chamber at the state’s Huntsville Unit .
Lisa Ann Coleman from Arlington was executed for starving Davontae Marcel Williams to death in 2004.
Davontae Marcel Williams, 9, was the special needs child of Coleman’s girlfriend Marcella Williams who is currently serving life behind bars.
Five people related to Coleman were present for the execution, which lasted about 12 minutes. The victim’s family was not represented.
Before dying, the 38 year-old murderess told her relatives that she loved them and added:
“I just want to tell my family I love them, my son, I love him. God bless you all. God is good … I’m done.”
Coleman also had a special message for her friend and fellow inmate, Darlie Routier:
“Tell them I finished strong.”
The day of her death, she played cards with other prisoners and told them she was at peace and was ready.
Over 10 years ago, Lisa Ann Coleman was arrested and charged with the murder and kidnapping of Davontae.
On July 26, 2004, when police found the 9-year-old kid’s remains he weighed about 35 pounds.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the child died of malnutrition and pneumonia. The little boy had over 250 scars on his body.
According to the police report, Lisa Ann Coleman and Marcella Williams both starved the kid and beat him with an electric cord.
The pair also tied him with clothes hangers, locked him in a pantry and burned him with cigarettes. For a period of time, Davontae lived with only Coleman who refused to let his family members see him.
Both Marcella Williams and Lisa Ann Coleman were charged with capital murder, but the mother of the boy plead guilty in order to save her life.
Williams who had Davontae at the age of 14, was investigated by Child Protective Services seven times between 1995 and 2002 before authorities lost track of the family.
Many believe that the system failed the little boy. Some supporters of Lisa Ann Coleman who started a petition trying to get Gov. Rick Perry to pardon her, claimed that she was executed because she was an African American and gay.
