Lisa Coleman
Lisa Coleman, 38, was a Black woman executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville on September 17, 2014, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Before the drug was administered she told her family she loved them and thanked her lawyers, and the state prison system said she died 12 minutes later, at 6:24 p.m. Her lawyer argued until the end that the legal basis for her case was wrong, but a federal appeals court and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. She was the sixth woman put to death in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Her lawyer argued until the end that the legal basis for her case was wrong.
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held her); U.S. Supreme Court (court); family or their lawyers.