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Virginia Governor Rejects Clemency for Teresa Lewis

By Steve Hall

The Washington Post reports, "Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell won't stay execution of Teresa Lewis," by Maria Glod and Anita Kumar. Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said Friday evening that he will not spare the life of a 41-year-old woman who is set to become the first woman executed in the state in nearly a century. Teresa Lewis, who conspired with two men to carry out the 2002 murders of her husband and stepson, is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection Thursday in Virginia's death chamber. Her appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lewis's supporters have argued that she does not deserve to die because she is borderline mentally retarded and was manipulated by a much smarter conspirator. They say it is unfair that Lewis was sentenced to death while the two men who fired the shots received life sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 18, 2010 (boomark / email).