An Alabama woman, Heather Leavell-Keaton has been sentenced to die by
lethal injection for barbarically torturing and killing her
common-law-husband’s two small children.
She was sentenced six months after the children’s father, John DeBlase, was handed the same death sentence.
The court heard that Keaton was found guilty of poisoning the
children, Natalie, 5, and Chase, 3, with anti-freeze in their meals but
it was the choking that ultimately killed them.
The oldest child was duct-taped and stuffed inside of a suitcase for
12 hours in March 2010 after enduring months of being burned with
cigarettes and hot candle wax.
Prosecutors said Keaton was jealous of Natalie and wanted them both dead.
With her sentence, she becomes only the fourth woman on Alabama’s death row and the first in Mobile County.
The last woman killed in the state was in 2002 by the electric chair.
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