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September 18, 2014

Texas Conducts Rare Execution of Woman 
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Texas has executed a woman for the starvation death of a nine-year-old
boy in 2004. Lisa Ann Coleman is only the 15th woman to be executed
since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, compared to nearly
1,400 men. Six of those 15 female executions have been carried out in
Texas.

 

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