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TEXAS

Woman put to death for killing of boy, 9

A Texas woman convicted

of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend's 9-year-old son a decade ago was executed Wednesday.

Lisa Coleman, 38, received a lethal injection in Huntsville after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal. She was pronounced dead 12 minutes after officials began administering a lethal dose of pentobarbital.

She is the second woman to receive lethal injection in Texas this year. Nationally, she is the 15th woman executed since the court in 1976 allowed the death penalty to resume. During that same time, nearly 1,400 men have been put to death.

Coleman was condemned for the death of Davontae Williams, whose emaciated body was found in July 2004 at the North Texas apartment Coleman shared with his mother, Marcella Williams, who is serving a life sentence as part of a plea bargain. - AP

NEVADA

Oath change OKd

Air Force officials are changing their policy on enlistment oaths and will let airmen omit the words so help me God. The decision comes after an airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada struck the words on reenlistment paperwork and ran up against a policy that bans omissions. The case went up to the Department of Defense General Counsel, which issued an opinion Wednesday - AP

CALIFORNIA

Drag-name dispute

Facebook says it temporarily restored hundreds of deleted profiles of self-described drag queens and others, but declined to change a policy requiring account-holders to use their real names. The company restored the names Wednesday after it met with drag queens and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The drag queens say requiring them to disclose their real names could put jobs, relationships, and health at risk. - AP

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