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Will Virginia go forward with first US execution of a woman in five years?

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local press report, which is headlined "Execution date set for Va. woman in Pittsylvania slayings," Virginia is now on track to execute a female murderer this September.  Here are the basics: Teresa Wilson Lewis would be the first woman put to death in Virginia in almost a century if her execution, set yesterday for Sept. 23, is carried out. Lewis, 41, was sentenced to death for persuading two men, with sex and promises of money, to kill her husband, Julian Clifton Lewis Jr., and her stepson, Charles J. Lewis.  The two were murdered in their Pittsylvania County trailer the night of Oct. 30, 2002. Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller were sentenced to life in prison for shooting the men in their beds.  Authorities said Lewis was the mastermind and that the three were to share in the proceeds from her stepson's life-insurance policy and her husband's estate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 31, 2010 (boomark / email).