Win, Lose or Draw?

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. ~Bobby Scott

Click on the link above entitled "Lisa Ann Coleman Executed" and read the article about Lisa Ann Coleman. Think carefully about the article and the quote above, then determine who will gain and who will lose in this case of execution.

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Due: September 26, 2014 11:59 p.m. CST

69 Comments

Ra'Shad Little (3rd period)

9/22/2014 12:56:01 am

No one will truly gain in this case of execution. A child is dead, and yes Lisa deserved to be punished for her devious crime. However killing her, won't bring back young Davontae Williams, it will only bring loss to another family. No one gained anything in this case, and the families of both Davontae and Lisa, loss a loved one.

Domenic Brown

9/24/2014 07:59:56 am

I agree no one will gain anything. True Lisa deserves punishment but it will not bring back Davontae Williams life back. It just results in more unneeded death.

dominique hemphill

9/24/2014 12:02:24 pm

I agree with ra'shad little.. of course a person should be punished for their actions, but killing her didn't solve anything .. it just added on to the unneeded body count.

Monte' Gooden

9/24/2014 01:07:07 pm

Clearly, the family didn't care as they walked out silently on the news report.

Cariarmstrong

9/26/2014 04:00:03 pm

I agree with rashard is you do the crime then indeed you must do the time

DQ Adams

9/25/2014 11:34:30 am

I agree killing her only add more sorrow to the situation.

Te'Rik Green link

9/22/2014 01:06:08 am

No one wins in this situation. I can't believe people think that killing a criminal is justice. Lisa Ann Coleman shouldn't have died. For one, nobody "deserves" to die. The death penalty isn't a sure way to seek justice. Punishing a criminal for their actions is pretty acceptable, the objective of seeking justice is to stop the wrong doer from committing more crimes. Putting them through trial and sentencing them years in a facility where they have certain limitations and rules as in a detention center but on a higher level. That is justice. No one wins killing a murderer for murder.

Jaclyn Brown 5th

9/22/2014 02:30:12 pm

this is so true, putting justice with jusitce. This was saying to me eventho you kill someone what dose that help nothing at all.

Nefretiri Ross

9/22/2014 06:35:18 am

Yes its not right for anybody to be executed but then to they shall be punished for what they did .

Alex Bennett

9/24/2014 12:18:33 pm

agreed, completely. Execution was too extreme, even for what happened, prison for life would have been a more optimal route

Jaclyn Brown 5th

9/22/2014 02:25:52 pm

Eventho that it's sad that a kid die, and eventho she was knock down with a hit. Nobody deserve to be put alseep for good. Nobody would ever know what was going on with both of the stories that is being put out. Then at the same time they know what they did.

Michael magee

9/23/2014 02:50:32 am

I agree because you have to know the whole story before u go killimg people an not no whats really happen

Darryl sellars

9/26/2014 04:57:08 pm

I agree with Michael magee about how I need to know more about what happened before making a final conclusion. But I evidence doesn't lie

T'Anna Smith

9/26/2014 12:51:52 pm

I agree with Jaclyn, They didn't deserve to die not even Lisa but she was wrong for what she did

Michael Magee

9/23/2014 02:48:33 am

Nobody wins in this situation . You have a dead boy and a dead women for what happen.it doesn't make senses to kill sombody when they have killed someone they should be put through justice the write way and not by doing what they did.

Jordan Rogers

9/23/2014 02:51:18 am

Nobody deserve to be put asleep for good but its not right for no one excuted but people should be punish for what they did

jamarie williams p5

9/26/2014 07:36:07 am

i agree with jordan. kno one should get the lethal injection doesn't matter what the crime is.

Jonathon Johnson

9/23/2014 04:07:58 am

Its not right to kill someone for something you don't know the whole story about.

Domenic Brown

9/23/2014 08:28:58 am

I believe no one will gain anything by this case. Both parties of the case will loose a beloved member of their family. However Lisa should be punished for her crime, but death is too far.

Monte' Gooden

9/24/2014 01:05:17 pm

yes, death was wrong. She could have just did her time.

Casey Chatman

9/25/2014 09:28:21 am

I believe in what your saying, death has no justice it's taking the easy way out.

Cinthya Vergara

9/26/2014 02:23:37 pm

We're on the same page, we shouldn't cause death when that is the very same crime that started the whole mess. Time in jail would have been enough.

christopher

9/23/2014 01:45:10 pm

Well when you have situations like killing a movie theater audience, I fell the death penalty is necessary in some cases

Eishanna Wooten(2nd p)

9/24/2014 10:02:36 am

I believe that no one has gained anything. Even though Lisa Ann Coleman committed a crime, of the murdering of this young man, that should not give anyone the power to execute anyone, and with that coming from the criminal justice system is just absurd for them to even make this acceptable.

Isaiah Manning

9/25/2014 04:29:31 am

I totally agree with you "No one has gained anything." However I believe that death row at least gives a family a satisfaction that there family member can R.I.P.

Arias Cook 5th

9/26/2014 01:05:30 pm

I simply agree to disagree, Lisa Ann deserves to be executed for taking someones life. But that doesn't give the justice system the right to murder someones life on there mistakes. People make mistakes all the time, the thing is to learn from them.

Alex Bennett

9/24/2014 12:17:24 pm

Nobody will gain from this. Execution was taking it too far, she should have been imprisoned for her actions so she could have time to think about what she's done. Even for an act so violent as torturing a nine year old to death is punishable by imprisonment.

Maria Hurtado 2nd

9/26/2014 11:54:17 am

I agree with Alex on this situation, execution took it too far and could have been avoided. An alternative to this case of execution would of been a life sentence as it was for the mother of the victim.

Monte' Gooden p5

9/24/2014 01:03:52 pm

Ms. Lisa Ann Coleman committed a horrible crime in starving that boy to death. Its a lost for the state of Texas, and a loss on her behave. She didn't deserve an "execution", that was harsh, but time should have been served.

T'Anna Smith

9/24/2014 02:58:08 pm

Even though Lisa got what she deserved it doesn't help the fact that Davontae is dead. No one really gains anything out of this situation. A little justice is served for Davontae family but what about Lisa's family. Murder is a crime that a person should serve time for, not to take their life.

DeMarcus Byrd

9/25/2014 08:47:12 am

I totally agree with you T'Anna I also believe no one gained anything from this situation.

Vanessa Salazar

9/25/2014 12:17:50 am

No one wins in this problem because killing a criminal can be like cleaning your shoes befkre you walk out into mud; pointless. Justice is not brought because the criminal didnt do time for her actions. Lisa ann was put to rest, she didn't do time for whatbshe did.

Derrica Anderson

9/26/2014 12:53:24 pm

True. It would've made sense to let her do the time instead of executing her. No justice is present.

isaiah Manning

9/25/2014 02:15:36 am

I believe that the death sentence is not really doing anything to the victims family. At the same time they can rest knowing that they don't have to live knowing that the person Who was on death row already will not walk on earth. So I believe death row is a good option.

Casey Chatman

9/25/2014 09:10:20 am

In my opinion, I see it as no one gains because even tho Lisa has been put to death the family still suffers from the lose of the little boy. It was a lose that the family didn't get to see her serve your time, in stead of taking the easy way out. No one deserves to die!

DeMarcus Byrd

9/25/2014 09:15:04 am

I believe that the death penalty is pointless. Just because the person that did the crime is dead doesn't mean that the pain of Davontae Williams family has gone away with the wind. no its still there and will always remain there so giving the death penalty was useless. You cant take a life for a life.

DQ "Longway" Adams

9/25/2014 11:38:37 am

I feel that their is no gain in this situation. Killing her would only make another family sad by he death of another person. Also it would solve nothing I rather she sit in prison and suffer with the fact of killing somebody.

Victoria Miller

9/25/2014 02:17:30 pm

The death penalty does not do anything about crime. The person who is given the death penalty is taking the easy way out of their punishment instead of suffering the consequences. Lisa starved a minor and he died from the abuse, she was given a lethal injection and died peacefully and did not suffer to death. Everyone lost in this case of execution the family of Davontae, the family of Lisa, and even Lisa herself.

Janesia Henderson

9/26/2014 02:04:24 pm

I agree with Victoria because at the end of the day taking the life of Lisa doesn't bring the family happiness. She should have suffered the same way that Davontae suffered.

Victoria Miller

9/25/2014 02:19:56 pm

I agree with Ra'Shad, the death of Lisa isn't going to bring Davontae back and both families lost a loved one.

Avier Ashby

9/25/2014 02:31:14 pm

Thier is no right of justice in this article. Although she killed the boy it dosnt mean she had to get put to sleep over it. However , many people are killed everyday some are locked up and some have gotten away with murder but, they fell like its ok to kill the lady for killing a boy. No that's not right "two wrongs don't make a right.

Avier ashby

9/25/2014 02:32:47 pm

I agree with rashad because at the end of the day two loved ones is gone but yet it haven resolved anything

raymond link

9/25/2014 04:07:43 pm

Man and woman period have to much say so on another persons life yes we need order but not to this degree we are all going to die from our own sins caused but it shouldn't be like this

raymond hawkins link

9/25/2014 04:10:09 pm

And yea I agree with everybody's comments on this so far

Ariana Hughes-Crockett

9/26/2014 04:11:20 am

The incident didn't solve anything at all. Her killing the boy ain't change nolthing at all. She had to deal with consequences to so she lost her life from taking another person life. I honestly feel it's uncaused for she shouldn't had killed the boy in the first place it's not that serious.

jamarie williams p5

9/26/2014 07:38:45 am

My opinion of the whole situation is messed up. Because at the end of the day everybody end up taking loses, on both sides of the family. they both lost someone they love.

Maria Hurtado 2nd

9/26/2014 11:35:14 am

In my opinion, neither side gained anything from this case of execution. Both Davontae as well as Coleman died and left an extreme sadness in their families. Even though, I believe Coleman should have been punished it could have been done in a different way.

Domonique Bass

9/26/2014 11:35:25 am

With the death penalty no one really wins. Your killing another person to do nothing. If that person sits in jail they have time to think on it and let it eat away at this. Death penalty is the easy way out of a situation

Tremont Allen

9/26/2014 12:33:46 pm

Thats true but everything happens for a reason

Chris Rowlett

9/26/2014 04:45:02 pm

I agree, the death penalty is the easy way out

Tremont Allen

9/26/2014 12:30:14 pm

I believe no one is right in this situation.Killing someone is a sin whether its execution or murder. Both will lose,no type of gain.

Derrica Anderson

9/26/2014 12:49:31 pm

It's evident that Lisa Coleman deserved some consequence for her actions. However, executing her makes the situation absent from win or lose. Executing her has not and will not bring young Devontae Williams back.

Arias Cook 5th period

9/26/2014 01:01:40 pm

In my opinion, no one really actually wins in the case of the death penalty. What can the executor actually gain from excecuting an individual? In the end, every one looses, the boy looses his life and the woman looses hers. No justice is formed, nothing is solved.

rauscher manning

9/26/2014 01:10:00 pm

Me personally I think that there is no win in this case because there are other crimes that are just as bad and killing her will not make anything better. Although she did commit an crime, she still dint deserve what she got.

melissahicks

9/26/2014 01:10:51 pm

I feel as if killing her will not bring justice just more heartache.people think killing another person because they killed some one defeats the perpouse because we are comitting the same crime.i think its heartless because now both families have lost a loved one

Trevone Nash 5th

9/26/2014 01:29:55 pm

Now I don't condone to killing people, however in this situation were this woman tortures and starves a young child to death is just cruel and undeniable evil. And I don't like the fact that I pay tax dollars to take care of her, when she didn't take care of a child in her care. So, yes, I think she does deserve the death penalty, let God take care of her final judgment.

LaRoysha Cooks [ 5th Period ]

9/26/2014 01:50:25 pm

There will be no gains in this situation. She deserved what she got mainly because she took a life so hers got took. But killing her wont do anything to benefit nobody it will just cause pain to her loved ones.

Janesia Henderson

9/26/2014 01:54:15 pm

Nobody won , everybody lost because the death of Lisa is not going to bring the life of Davontae back. All families lost a loved one, at the end of the day the death penalty does not help the fact that an unnecessary life was taking away. Whether or not if she got the death penalty and executed it still does not justify that Davontae life was taken away .

Treylon Cobbin

9/26/2014 01:57:57 pm

Killin Lisa solved nothing. Though she got what she deserved, nothing was gained through more death. She had already been convicted and the life of the boy she was convicted for had already been taking. Nothing but heart ache stands in the end for both Lisa's family and Devontae's.

Cinthya Vergara

9/26/2014 02:12:13 pm

In this situation, ironically, Coleman wins. Ending her life through execution frees her from actually paying for her crime. This punishment is a very asinine way of convicting criminals. You give them an easy way out. On the other hand, the family of the child, looses from the very point when their kid is killed. Killing the murderer of their child will not give them their baby back. At least make the culprits pay with time and not their life

Halee' Boyd

9/26/2014 03:25:11 pm

No one in my opinion wins because although she was sent on a death penalty does not bring back their little boy.

Cari Armstrong

9/26/2014 03:58:38 pm

People that do the crime should do the crime

Maryann Amoloja 5 th

9/26/2014 04:15:03 pm

A person is truly ever given one life.If they have committed a serious crime that should not be entitled to a death sentence. Therefore one should use the life they have been given to repeat for what they have done.

Trenton Miller

9/26/2014 04:19:03 pm

Killing anyone doesn't justify anything. Taking a life is taking a life. Their is no way around it.someone still lost a loved one. So my opinion nobody gains.

Meerihk'l Brisby

9/26/2014 04:27:51 pm

No one gain justice in this situation, Davontae Williams' life is already gone. So why add more pain and hurt to the situation? Yes for every action there's a reaction, but Lisa's life shouldn't have been taken.

jacorian lee

9/26/2014 04:35:36 pm

No one deserves to die but in a way of punishment could've been a better choice than execution

nefretiri Ross

9/26/2014 04:36:00 pm

The way the Justice system is set up I don't feel like she don't need be executed I would rather see her rot to death spending life in jail.However theirs no way that the justice system should kill anybody like that everybody make mistakes .

Chris Rowlett

9/26/2014 04:43:18 pm

No one gains anything. Both families have lost something though

Darryl Sellars (5th period)

9/26/2014 04:54:48 pm

I need to know more about the case itself but based on the article no one wins or loses in this situation because it really doesn't matter. Everyone is going to die eventually,but killing someone for anything other then self defense is something that deserves punishment. If what the news report is accurate about how it all went down then lethal injection was too good for her. Both of the assailants deserve way worse than they got. So in an ironic way Lisa Ann Coleman and Marcella Williams win in this situation,

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