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More on Teresa Lewis

By Steve Hall

"Teresa Lewis, Mentally Disabled Woman, To Be Executed In Virginia This Month," is the title of Laura Bassett's post at Huffington Post. Teresa Lewis, a borderline mentally retarded woman charged with "masterminding" the murder of her husband and stepson in 2002, is slated to be the first woman in almost a century to be executed in Virginia this month.Lewis, 40, pleaded guilty to hiring two men, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller, to murder her husband and stepson so that she could collect a $350,000 life insurance policy. Both triggermen were handed life sentences, but Judge Charles Strauss gave Lewis the death penalty, reasoning that she was "clearly the head of this serpent."Since the 2002 verdict, new evidence about Lewis and the gunmen has emerged that raises questions about whether she was fairly sentenced and whether, after already having lost one appeal, the Supreme Court should reopen her case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).