Davontae Marcel Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Davontae Williams was born four months premature and had developmental disabilities he lived with two younger siblings, his mother Marcella Williams and her girlfriend Lisa Ann Coleman. The apartment had pantry full of food and a refrigerator loaded with gallons of ice cream and frozen meat. Everyone in the apartment ate except for nine year old Davontae. On July 26, 2004 paramedics found the lifeless starved corpse of Davontae on the bathroom floor wearing only a diaper. Davontae weighed 35 pounds less than a healthy three year old.

 

At the time of his death, Davontae was suffering from pneumonia. His cause of death was malnutrition with pneumonia as a contributing factor. Both Coleman and the boy’s mother were charged with capital murder. But Williams pleaded guilty in 2006 in exchange for a life sentence to avoid facing the death penalty at trial. Williams had previous contact with Child Protective Services. Records showed Williams and her son had been the subject of at least six child abuse investigations. Prior CPS investigations detailed how Davontae was found to be hungry. In 1999, he and his sister, Destinee, were placed into foster care after Davontae was found to have been beaten with an extension cord. Coleman denied beating him with a cord, and Williams told CPS that they had bound him with one. The two children were eventually returned when Williams promised to stay away from Coleman.

 

Lisa was charged with capital murder and two counts of injury to a child. On June 19, 2006, Lisa Ann Coleman was found guilty and sentenced to death for the capital murder charge and 99 years for the child abuse charges. Lisa Ann Coleman was executed at 6:24 p.m. She died 12 minutes after the drug was administered. She was the sixth woman put to death since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas.