Texas to execute 9th person this year, a female convict


Screen Shot 2014-09-17 at 12.54.04 PMThe state of Texas is scheduled to execute Lisa Coleman Wednesday night. This will be the state's ninth execution in 2014–more than any other state–and the 30th execution in the United States this year. "It will also be something unusual in this country: The execution of a female inmate, something that has almost never happened throughout the modern era of the death penalty."