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Supreme Court Rejects Stay in Virginia Case

By Steve Hall

"Woman on Death Row Runs Out of Appeals," is the title of Erik Eckholm's report in today's New York Times. ?She is clearly the head of this serpent,? the judge said of Teresa Lewis in 2003 when he sentenced her to death by lethal injection, describing her as the mastermind of the cold-blooded murders of her husband and his son as they slept in rural Virginia. Late on Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied her last-ditch appeal for a stay, and Ms. Lewis, now 41, is scheduled to die on Thursday night at 9. Her case has drawn unusual attention, not only because she would be the first woman executed in the United States since 2005, and the first in Virginia since 1912, but also because of widely publicized concerns about the fairness of her sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).