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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...

It wasn't news to anyone that Derrick Sean O'Brien was bad news. He fought often at school, once breaking a kid's jaw. Lots of times he was drunk. Sometimes he carried a knife. He was full of bluster about his prowess as a car thief. But it was in 1993 that O'Brien hit rock bottom. In January of that year, O'Brien later admitted, he murdered and tried to rape Patricia Lopez, a 27-year-old mother of two young children, in Melrose Park. And on June 24, 1993, he took part in the brutal gang rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14,...