A Texas woman has been executed by lethal injection for torturing and starving a nine-year-old boy to death.
Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, was pronounced at 6.24pm local time last night after her last minute appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected.
She became the second woman to be executed in the United States this year and the 15th since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Her execution is said to have passed off "very peacefully" according to media witness KDFW reporter Richard Ray who said he heard only a "short gasp" before she died.
Her last words, were directed at her fellow inmate Darlie Routier, were: "Tell them I finished strong."
Coleman was convicted in 2004 of torturing and starving to death her girlfriend's nine-year-old boy Davontae Williams.
Police found his emaciated body at Coleman's apartment with a disfigured ear, swollen hands and ligature marks on his wrists and ankles.
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