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Teresa Lewis Didn't Pull the Trigger. Why Is She on Death Row?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of John Grisham's OpEd in the Washington Post.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.  LINK 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 penalty system. Lewis is not innocent. She confessed to the police, pled guilty to the judge and for almost eight years has expressed profound remorse for her role in two murders...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).