Clydell Coleman was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Leetisha Joe
According to court documents Clydell Coleman would break into the home of eighty eight year old Leetisha Joe. When Leetisha Joe discovered him inside of her house she would scream and Coleman would strike her with a hammer and strangled her with her stockings causing her death
Clydell Coleman would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Clydell Coleman was executed by lethal injection on May 5 1999
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Clydell Coleman Case
Texas and Arizona each executed killers by lethal injection Wednesday.
Robert “Bonzai Bob” Vickers, one of Arizona’s most notorious killers, was put to death at the state prison complex southeast of Phoenix. Vickers had murdered one cellmate and carved his nickname in the man’s back; he later set another inmate on fire.
Vickers spent 20 years on Arizona’s death row, longer than any of the 117 others currently there, and was the 17th person to be executed since Arizona resumed capital punishment in 1992. He is the fifth state inmate to be put to death this year
He was executed for the 1982 killing of fellow inmate Wilmar “Buster” Holsinger.
Vickers, who was first sent to prison at age 19 for grand theft, had spent two trouble-filled decades on death row.
In Texas, Clydell Coleman, 62, was the oldest man put to death since the state resumed executions in 1982, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a national ban on capital punishment.
His was the second execution in as many days in Texas and the state’s 12th this year–a total that leads the nation.
Coleman was pronounced dead eight minutes after he was injected with a deadly solution. He made no final statement. He was sentenced to die for the Feb. 24, 1989, murder and robbery of 87-year-old Leetisha Joe.
Coleman and accomplice Yolanda Phillips broke into Joe’s Waco, Texas, home, where Coleman covered her with a blanket, hit her on the head with a hammer and strangled her with her own stocking.
The pair stole several household items, which Phillips later confessed were to be sold for drugs.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-06-mn-34661-story.html
