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New Picture Has Emerged of Woman Facing Imminent Execution in Virginia

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a news release issued by the Death Penalty Information Center regarding the case of Teresa Lewis.  LINK  Here's the complete release:Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, Teresa Lewis will be put to death on September 23 in Virginia, the first woman to be executed in that state in a century. But the woman whom the sentencing judge assumed was the mastermind in the murders of her husband and adult stepson now has been shown to be a simpler person who was readily led by others and the target of a scam by an ambitious hitman. Ms. Lewis has taken full responsibility for her role in the crime, but was probably less culpable than the two men who used her and actually carried out the killings...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).