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Teresa Lewis' Execution Date in Virginia

By Steve Hall

"Unfit for Execution," is the title of Lynn Lichtfield's My Turn column at Newsweek.  Litchfield was chaplain at Virginia's Fluvanna prison from 1998 to 2009. For six years, I regularly spent an hour talking and listening through a small slot in a metal door. On the other side was the only woman on death row in Virginia, an inmate who pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill her husband and stepson, allegedly in exchange for a cut of the insurance money. Sometimes I was allowed to sit in a chair as I stooped down to hear her, give her communion, or just hold her hand; usually I alternated between half-squatting or kneeling on the concrete floor. As chaplain at Virginia?s only maximum-security prison for women, I expected to minister under challenging circumstances...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).