Draggingtree Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Lisa Coleman Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 6:00 pm Execution Received an execution date after the U.S. Supreme Court refused in February 2014 to review her appeal. She was convicted of having a role in the 2004 death of her live-in girlfriend's son near Fort Worth. The girlfriend, Marcella Williams, who was 14 when she had the child, was also charged with capital murder but pleaded guilty in exchange for a life sentence. The death of the 9-year-old was among the cases cited when the Legislature passed a bill in 2005 overhauling the state’s protective services agencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 Lisa Ann COLEMAN Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Child abuse - Torture Number of victims: 1 Date of murder: July 26, 2004 Date of birth: October 6, 1975 Victim profile: Davontae Williams, 9 (her girl lover's son) Method of murder: Intentionally starved to death Location: Tarrant County, Texas, USA Status: Sentenced to death on June 22, 2006 Name TDCJ Number Date of Birth Coleman, Lisa 999511 10/06/1975 Date Received Age (when Received) Education Level 06/22/2006 30 10 Date of Offense Age (at the Offense) County 07/26/2004 28 Tarrant Race Gender Hair Color Black Female Black Height Weight Eye Color 5 ft 03 in 189 Brown Native County Native State Prior Occupation Tarrant Texas Laborer Prior Prison Record TDCJ #667321 on a five year sentence for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance from Tarrant County. TDCJ #1002130 on a two year sentence for burglary of a habitation from Tarrant County. Summary of incident On July 26, 2004 in Tarrant County, authorities were called to Coleman's residence where they found a nine year old black male deceased. An autopsy of victim concluded that the child was severely malnourished and underweight. Coleman and co-defendant were found to have restrained the child over a period of time depriving him of food. Co-defendants Marcella Williams Race and Gender of Victim Black Male Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 HEIGHTEN THE CONTRADICTIONS by Gabriel Rossman 08/05/2014 Suppose that party A habitually engages in actions that party B finds morally offensive. Party B then finds various ways to obstruct this offensive action, but only partially, so the effect is to make the action more dangerous, but not impossible. Party A continues with the (now more dangerous) course of action and predictably problems ensue. Who is morally at fault? Or more to the point, who receives blame and is the ensuing policy push to prohibit A from engaging in the offensive action or instead for B to cease obstructing and switch to accomodation and harm reduction? For instance, if I am morally opposed to clear-cutting an old growth forest and so I spike the trees, but it gets logged anyway and some lumberjack get injured or killed, who is at fault: Me or the loggers? Well, as in so many things, I think who you blame ultimately comes down to confirmation bias and we can see this play out in a few recent incidents. Over the last months there has been a great deal of outrage over botched executions in Oklahoma, Ohio, and Arizona in which the executions did not go as planned and in at least one of the three cases the condemned suffered prolonged excruciating pain.http://theamericanscene.com/2014/08/05/heighten-the-contradictions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber_Liberty Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 For instance, if I am morally opposed to clear-cutting an old growth forest and so I spike the trees, but it gets logged anyway and some lumberjack get injured or killed, who is at fault: Me or the loggers? It's been said: The government is really good at breaking your legs, then giving you crutches. As you get around, they'll remind you (repeatedly) that you have them to thank for your ability to walk. If your legs heal, they'll break them again.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Court to rule on lethal-injection protocolBy Lyle Denniston on Jan 23, 2015 at 4:23 pm The Supreme Court agreed on Friday afternoon to hear the appeal of three Oklahoma death-row inmates who are challenging the three-drug protocol the state now uses for executions. The Court on January 15 had refused, by a five-to-four vote , to grant delays of the inmates’ executions, and one of them was put to death that night. Even while agreeing to hear the case, the Justices took no action — at least not immediately — to put off any of the execution dates for the three men still involved in the case. The next such date is next Thursday. http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/01/court-to-rule-on-lethal-injection-protocols/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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