Virginia to execute a woman for the first time in almost a century
September 12th, 2010 - 11:20 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattSep 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Virginia is set to execute a female prisoner for the first time in 98 years.
The woman in question is Teresa Lewis, who is classified as borderline mentally retarded because of her low IQ level. The 41 year old is set to die by lethal injection on September 23, if there is no intervention from the Supreme Court or the governor of the state.
Teresa was charged with hiring two thugs to execute her husband and stepson in their trailer in order to claim his insurance in 2002.
Police say Teresa waited for 45 minutes after the incident, before she called the police. She also reportedly took money from her husband’s pocket when the incident happened. When police got to the scene of the incident, the husband was not dead and he told police officers that his wife knew the men that shot them before dying shortly afterwards.
The two men who carried out the shooting were sentenced to life imprisonment but the judge called Teresa the “head of the serpent” that stung the husband and the stepson and subsequently sentenced her to die. Teresa was having affair with one of the men who carried out the attack.
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