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John Grisham finds mysterious Virginia's application of the death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

Famed lawyer-author John Grisham has this long commentary in Sunday's Washington Post, which is headlined "Teresa Lewis didn't pull the trigger.  Why is she on death row?".  Here are excerpts: The Commonwealth of Virginia already has a serious relationship with its death penalty. In the past three decades, only Texas has executed more inmates. But on Sept. 23, the Old Dominion will enter new territory when it executes a female inmate for the first time in nearly a century. Her name is Teresa Lewis, she is the only woman on death row at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, and her appeals have all but expired. If she is executed, she will become another glaring example of the unfairness of our death In this case, as in so many capital cases, the imposition of a death sentence had little do with fairness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 12, 2010 (boomark / email).