A Texas woman who has been in custody for eight years is set to be put to death on Wednesday evening in Huntsville, but her attorneys are trying to stop it.
According to the Associated Press, lawyers for Lisa Ann Coleman, who is set to die by lethal injection, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block her scheduled execution.
The 38-year-old from Arlington has been on death row since she was convicted of murder in the death of nine-year-old Davontae Williams.
The MailOnline noted that the child had been beaten, bound and starved. When officers found his frail body back in 2004, he had more than 250 scars and weighed just 35 pounds.
The boy ultimately died of malnutrition.
His mother Marcella Williams was the girlfriend of Coleman. She has been sentenced to life in prison for her part in the child’s death.
If attorneys cannot get Coleman’s execution blocked, she will be the 15th female executed in the U.S. since 1976.