Posted on 09/22/2010 7:31:52 AM PDT by greatdefender
Virginia is slated to execute Teresa Lewis by lethal injection on Thursday, The Associated Press reported. The 41-year-old woman was sentenced to die after pleading guilty to capital murder for hiring two men to kill her husband and stepson so she could collect a $250,000 life insurance policy.
Rodney Fuller and Lewis' lover, Matthew Shallenberger, entered her home on Oct. 30, 2002, and fatally shot Julian Clifton, Jr., 51, and Charles Lewis, 25. Teresa then rummaged through her husband's pockets for money while he was dying. She also waited nearly an hour before calling 911. The triggermen were sentenced to life for the slayings, The New York Daily News reported; however, Shallenberger committed suicide in prison in 2006.
If Lewis' execution takes place, as planned, it will be the first time a woman has been put to death in Virginia since the 1912 execution of Virginia Christian. According to the book "Women and the Death Penalty in the United States" by Kathleen A. O'Shea, the 17-year-old African-American maid was convicted of killing her white employer, Ida Virginia Belote, with a broom handle during a fight. Christian then stuffed a towel down Belote's throat, suffocating her, and left the house with the woman's purse, money and a gold locket, The Guardian reported. She confessed to the crime shortly after being caught, and died in the electric chair five months later.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has denied Lewis' request for clemency. Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court also refused to block her execution. To date, only 11 women have been executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
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She must really be stupid - in todays environment she coulda claimed self defense and walked.
“Teresa then rummaged through her husband’s pockets for money while he was dying.”
Isn’t that sorta what the estate tax does to people?
Committing murder in Texas is also a bad idea.
About the title- every execution is the first time, for the executee. They are not going to do it twice in 98 years!
Yikes! She had a husband AND a lover?
Virginans demand thoroughness.
Unless she came back as a zombie! :)
Yeah, in Texas death row, we put in an express lane!
( Ron White told me that) snort*
What, no self-service?
Let me be the first to say GUILTY......
Are you also encouraging the clients to prepay their legal bills, LOL?
If she killed Belote with a broom handle how could she have suffocated Belote aftwerwards?
it’s Oregon that has the self-service Death Row.
In the world today she could probably get a stay by trying to commit suicide.
I think people had to be killed twice then, like the title of this article suggests.
In England long ago you’d be hung, then drawn and quartered.
Then Python came along and you were hung by the neck until you cheered up.
probably a registered Deocrat too...fry her!
hummmm self service death row, how does that work?
How many times was she hit with a fugly stick?
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