Teresa Lewis, Mentally Disabled Woman, Executed In Virginia Amid Outcry

Teresa Lewis
Teresa Lewis

STEVE SZKOTAK |

JARRATT, Va. — The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia on Thursday for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Teresa Lewis, 41, died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. She became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly a century. Supporters and relatives of the victims watched her execution at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.

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