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By Steve Hall

Tony Mauro writes, "Attorney: Teresa Lewis a 'Poster Child' for Broken Death Penalty System." for the National Law Journal. The only thing sustaining Jim Rocap III in the last few days, he said Tuesday, was the classic Winston Churchill admonition: "If you are going through hell, keep going." Rocap, partner at Steptoe & Johnson in D.C. has represented Virginia death row inmate Teresa Lewis since 2004. But this week the final avenues of appeal were closing, one by one. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell refused to grant clemency twice, and late Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court denied Lewis a stay of execution by a 7-2 vote and rejected Rocap's petition for certiorari. Barring any unforeseen development, she will be executed tonight at 9 at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, the first woman put to death in nearly a century by Virginia...continue to full post

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