Saturday, September 25, 2010
Virginia Vies With Taliban Theocracy
JARRATT, Va. — 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 last night when she was killed by lethal injection....
Lewis’s case generated passion and interest across the world...
Hardly heard or saw a word about it over here.
Of course, I do not watch TV news and the only paper I red is the Globe.
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Not even the Supreme Court could stop it.
"Court won’t block woman’s execution" by Associated Press | September 22, 2010
RICHMOND — The US Supreme Court refused yesterday to block the execution of a woman convicted of two hired killings, clearing the way for the state’s first capital punishment of a woman in nearly a century.
Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a quarter-million dollar insurance policy....
“A good and decent person is about to lose her life because of a system that is broken,’’ said attorney James E. Rocap III, who represents Lewis....
Rocap asserted that one of the gunmen later claimed he manipulated Lewis, who is borderline mentally disabled, “to dupe her into believing he loved her so that he could achieve his own selfish goals.’’
Lewis pleaded guilty in May 2003 to two counts of capital murder for hire in the slayings of her husband, Julian, and her stepson, Charles.
How could she plead anything?
The triggermen, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller, were sentenced to life terms.
Shallenberger, whom Rocap named as the mastermind, committed suicide in prison in 2006.
Goodbye, scum. Thanks for freeing up the cell.
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