Teresa Lewis was finally topped Thursday evening for having her husband and stepson murdered in October 2002. Virginia’s governor received more than 7,300 appeals to stop the execution. The European Union, the Vatican, and international human rights organizations had appealed on her behalf and condemned the pending execution.
Many of the appeals noted that she had found Jesus in prison and had turned her life around. Just before the execution, her attorney wailed, 'A good and decent person is about to lose her life.’
The vast majority of those protesting her execution are not familiar with the details of the crime committed by Lewis. All t hey know is that some poor American grandmother had been condemned to death for the killing of her husband. Well here is what that ‘good and decent person’ - who offered her 16-year-old daughter for sex - did to be sentenced to death:
Teresa Lewis and Julian Clifton Lewis, Jr. met in 2000 at a textile factory where they worked and later married.
In 2002, Julian's son Charles bought a $250,000 life insurance policy when he was called for active duty by the U.S. Army Reserve. He named his father as sole beneficiary.
In addition to cash and a promised cut in the insurance policy, Lewis offered herself and her 16-year-old daughter for sex to Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller to kill her husband and stepson. She stood by while they shot the sleeping men, rummaged through her husband's pockets for money while he lay dying, and waited nearly an hour before calling paramedics.
She could not have collected the life insurance policy unless both had died.
While Teresa Lewis was sentenced to death, Shallenberger and Fuller received life sentences.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a last minute appeal in which her lawyer argued that Teresa Lewis’ execution would be unconstitutional because of her borderline-retarded IQ.
That argument caused Bob Walsh to ask: IF YOU CAN HAVE A LOW IQ AND BE A JUDGE, OR A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, WHY CAN’T YOU BE A DEAD MURDERER?
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