HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The state of Texas executed a woman for the sixth time since the death penalty was reinstated in the state on Wednesday.
Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, was administered a lethal injection for her conviction for the 2004 starvation death of a 9-year-old boy, Davontae Marcel Williams.
She died 12 minutes after she was injected with pentobarbital at Huntsville Unit.
Before her death, Coleman thanked her lawyers and told her family she loves them.
"I just want to tell my family I love them, my son, I love him," she said, according to a statement released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "God is good ... I'm done."
Coleman is the sixth woman and 517th person executed in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982. She was the ninth person put to death in the state this year.
She was convicted in the death of Davontae, the son of her live-in girlfriend, Marcella Williams. The boy's body was found in their Arlington, Texas, apartment beaten, with some 250 scars and weighing 35 pounds.
Davontae's official cause of death was malnutrition with pneumonia as a contributing factor.
Both Coleman and Williams were charged with capital murder, and Williams pleaded guilty in 2006 to avoid the death penalty.
