Lisa Ann Coleman is appointed to be accomplished Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2014.(Photo: Arlington Police Department)

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Despite a flurry of last-minute appeals, it appears the beheading of Lisa Ann Coleman will advance on Wednesday night at the Texas State Penitentiary Huntsville Unit.

Coleman will be the aboriginal woman put to afterlife from Tarrant County back the afterlife amends was reinstated in 1982.

She was bedevilled in 2006 of craving her girlfriend's nine-year-old son Devontae Williams to death.

The asleep boy's mother, Marcella Williams, after pleaded accusable and accustomed a activity sentence.

Coleman's above aegis advocate Fred Cummings said the case serves as a acceptable archetype of why basic abuse needs reform.

"Williams had a continued history with CPS; she was the boy's mother. She was as amiss in the afterlife of Devontae Williams as my client, and that is what seems unfair," Cummings said.

Cummings, who was already a prosecutor, told News 8 in a contempo account that he remembered the case well.

The aegis aggregation approved to argue jurors that Coleman didn't deserve to die, but that accepted difficult back they saw clear photos of Devontae belief alone 35 pounds and acutely emaciated.

"The photographs of this poor adolescent were so overwhelming, we couldn't affected that with the jury," he said. "What added could I accept done to accumulate this from happening? And that is activity to be article I will consistently anticipate about."

Cummings additionally acclaimed that Coleman had a above-mentioned bent history, while Williams alone had a almanac with Adolescent Protective Services.

The Coleman ancestors beneath to animadversion through their accepted attorneys.

An address filed with the 5th Circuit Cloister this anniversary was denied. A certiorari address and break appeal was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Cloister Tuesday afternoon.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has additionally voted adjoin charity in the case.

Dixie Bersano, who helped arraign Coleman in 2006, told News 8 in a statement:

This 9-year-old adolescent suffered a alarming afterlife at the easily of Lisa Ann Coleman. Davontae died of malnutrition, a apathetic and atrocious process. There was not an inch on his anatomy that had not been aching or aching or injured. The board adjourned the adapted punishment.

According to cloister documents, back paramedics responded to Coleman and Williams' Arlington accommodation in 2004 they begin Devontae "clad alone in bandages and a childhood [and] so 'emaciated and underweight' that it was 'shocking.'" The boy advised alone 35 pounds back his anatomy was begin in July, 2004.

Cummings said the two women didn't apperceive how to affliction for Davontae, who had behavioral problems.

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