Posted on 09/12/2010 1:37:11 PM PDT by Justaham
Barring intervention from the governor or Supreme Court, the state of Virginia plans to execute a woman later this month for the first time in nearly a century.
Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old grandmother with such a low IQ that she's classified as borderline mentally retarded, is set to die by lethal injection on Sept. 23. She'll be the state's first female prisoner put to death in 98 years.
Lewis pleaded guilty to hiring two men to murder her husband and stepson in their trailer in Virginia's rural Pittsylvania county in 2002, in order to collect life insurance money. She took cash from her husband Julian Lewis' wallet as he lay dying from gunshot wounds and waited 45 minutes to call police, The Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported. But when sheriff's deputies arrived, Julian was still alive and told them: "My wife knows who done this do me," ABC News reported. The man died soon after.
The two triggermen, one of whom Teresa Lewis was having an affair, got life in prison. But a judge deemed Lewis the crime's mastermind and called her "the head of this serpent," and sentenced her to death, according to Time magazine.
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Sounds like she deserved it.
If she was smart enough to plan this she is smart enough to pay the price.
Looks like she was smart enough to sleep with and hire thugs to kill her husband for MONEY!! Or can murderers only be executed if they can solve for the area under a curve??
Doesn’t sound borderline retarded to me, but a scheming, evil b!tch. Give ‘er the juice and let’s be done with her.
She seems to have been intelligent enough to plot the murder, and to think of taking money from his wallet. I think this qualifies her for the legal punishment.
Only 8 years...and they’re ready?
Isn’t that a bit quick by today’s standards?
And its only taken 8 yrs. That’s surprisingly quick.
I love it. Borderline retarded (funny how it seems 99% of all murderers are "borderline retarded") and yet she was able to function as a wife and mother up till the time she planned her husband's death by hiring hit men.
Seems to me she should have used her singing to calm herself rather then during a death sentence conversion.
eeeek
Guilty!
I never slept with a woman who looked like this. Every time I was drunk enough to do something that stupid, I passed out.
You must thank God for that daily... or hopefully less often
I doubt she looked much better 8 years ago.... or was THAT from 8 years ago?
She must have been very young the first time they executed her.
LOL!
equal rights suck doesn’t it
It is OK. She is white, so the fuss will be minimal. The low IQ stuff is bogus: she knew enough to plot cold blooded murder. She deserves the death penalty.
She doesn’t look at all like Ida Lupino.
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