An Alabama judge says a woman should die for the 2010 murder
of her common-law husband's 3-year-old son.
Mobile County Circuit Court judge Roderick Stout on Thursday
sentenced Leavell-Keaton to death by lethal injection, upholding jurors' recommendation.
Leavell-Keaton is the first woman in Mobile County history
sentenced to death row.
The jury found that Leavell-Keaton intentionally killed
Chase DeBlase in 2010, and recklessly caused the death of his 4-year-old sister
Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors alleged that Leavell-Keaton cooked anti-freeze
into the children's food.
Prosecutors have said the children were tortured, gagged and
choked to death. Chase and Natalie DeBlase's bodies were found dumped in remote
areas near Citronelle, Alabama, and Vancleave, Mississippi.
John DeBlase, the children's father, was sentenced to death
in late 2014
AP
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