Teresa Lewis, 41, was executed die by lethal injection. (AP) Posted on 09/23/2010 8:23:49 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
Teresa Lewis, 41, was executed die by lethal injection. (AP)
JARRATT, Va., Sept. 23 - Teresa Lewis, who plotted with a young lover to kill her husband and stepson for insurance money, became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years Thursday night when she was killed by lethal injection.
Authorities pronounced Lewis dead at 9:13 p.m.
Lewis's case generated passion and interest across the world. The European Union asked Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) to commute her sentence to life, citing her mental capacity. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cited the case at an appearance in New York.
It began on an October night nearly eight years ago, when Lewis prayed with her husband, slipped into bed next to him and waited for her two conspirators to come inside the door she had left unlocked. The two men showed up about 3:15 a.m., opened fire, then fled.
After the shooting, Lewis waited about half an hour to call 911. Her stepson, Charles "C.J." Lewis, died quickly. But her husband, Julian Lewis, whose body was riddled with bird shot, was alive and moaning "baby, baby, baby" when police arrived.
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Lewis is the 12th woman to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. The most recent was in Texas in 2005, when Frances Newton was killed by lethal injection for shooting her husband and two children.
On Saturday, Lewis was moved to the Greensville Correctional Center, site of Virginia's death house. She requested her final meal: fried chicken, sweet peas with butter, German chocolate cake and Dr. Pepper, corrections officials said.
Her supporters never said that Lewis was innocent or that she shouldn't be punished. But they said she did not deserve to die because she was borderline mentally retarded,...
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Good riddance to an evil person
ahmadinnerjacket has a lot of nerve citing the case.
he chops folks with axes for political gain
this loser plotted to kill a human for financial gain.
the world is a piece of crap
Good riddance and screw the “international community.”
This is what the death penalty was meant for. Planned homocide.
I am usually all for the death penalty and 15 yards for roughing, but this one doesn’t seem quite right. She solicited for murder but didn’t actually commit a murder...death penalty seems a bit much. Life in prison would be more fitting I guess...
Oh...too late I guess...LOLZ.
This could be the start of something good...bringing back the death penalty BIGTIME.
Now for those two pieces of crap who killed the Connecticut mom and her two daughters...
She knew the difference between right and wrong. They did the right thing.
I am usually all for the death penalty and 15 yards for roughing, but this one doesn’t seem quite right. She solicited for murder but didn’t actually commit a murder...death penalty seems a bit much. Life in prison would be more fitting I guess...
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What she did was worse than doing it herself.
A DR. PEPPER??? I can’t understand why she didn’t want COFFEE with that German Chocolate cake! Oh, I forgot.....she lived 8 years too long, imho.
Meh.
She knew right from wrong. You have to be way beyond borderline before you aren't responsible for your choices, sister.
Are you kidding? She was worse than the person who pulled the trigger. She was not only a killer, but a coward. To hell with her.
Oh, dear Lord, what evil!
I respectfully disagree. That's a distinction without a difference.
Night night y’all.
Bye.
Why is it there is never a shortage of idiots to defend a murderer like this?
dang’ol death.
My heart’s a-bleedin’.
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