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Teresa Lewis pronounced dead by Va. authorities
The Washington Post ^ | Thursday, September 23, 2010; 9:26 PM | Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer

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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KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; execution; goodriddance; mcdonnell; virginia
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1 posted on 09/23/2010 8:23:51 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

Good riddance to an evil person


2 posted on 09/23/2010 8:26:35 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

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


3 posted on 09/23/2010 8:27:19 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

Good riddance and screw the “international community.”


4 posted on 09/23/2010 8:27:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

This is what the death penalty was meant for. Planned homocide.


5 posted on 09/23/2010 8:28:05 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

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...


6 posted on 09/23/2010 8:28:17 PM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO!)
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Oh...too late I guess...LOLZ.


7 posted on 09/23/2010 8:29:09 PM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO!)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

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...


8 posted on 09/23/2010 8:29:25 PM PDT by Palladin (Remember Lepanto--Sink the Mosque!)
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But they said she did not deserve to die because she was borderline mentally retarded,...

She knew the difference between right and wrong. They did the right thing.

9 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:03 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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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.


10 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:10 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

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.


11 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:10 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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Borderline mentally retarded?

Meh.

She knew right from wrong. You have to be way beyond borderline before you aren't responsible for your choices, sister.

12 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:10 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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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.


13 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:55 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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But her husband, Julian Lewis, whose body was riddled with bird shot, was alive and moaning "baby, baby, baby" when police arrived.

Oh, dear Lord, what evil!

14 posted on 09/23/2010 8:31:23 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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She solicited for murder but didn’t actually commit a murder.

I respectfully disagree. That's a distinction without a difference.

15 posted on 09/23/2010 8:31:44 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If not for the double standard, liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

Night night y’all.


16 posted on 09/23/2010 8:32:07 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Refudiate 0bama '12)
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Bye.


17 posted on 09/23/2010 8:32:40 PM PDT by South40 (Filled with hatred for those who disagree, democrats are the most intolerant bigots on earth)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

Why is it there is never a shortage of idiots to defend a murderer like this?


18 posted on 09/23/2010 8:33:09 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

dang’ol death.


19 posted on 09/23/2010 8:33:31 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Inappropriate Laughter

My heart’s a-bleedin’.


20 posted on 09/23/2010 8:35:24 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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