Teresa Lewis
Using sex and promises
of money, Teresa Lewis persuaded two men to kill her husband
and
stepson
in a failed effort to gain $250,000 in life insurance proceeds.
Teresa Lewis
Teresa Lewis
Teresa
Lewis on Death Row.
Police
officers gather around the scene of the crime. Lewis was sentenced to
die after
she was convicted
of arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a
$250,000
insurance paymemt.
The
gunmen, Matthew Shallenberger (right) and Rodney Fuller, were
sentenced to life terms.
Shallenberger committed suicide in prison in 2006.
Kathy Clifton, Julian's daughter and Lewis'
stepdaughter, witnessed the execution.
She said she believes in
redemption - but is not sure if her step-mother will find it:
'I can't
say one way or the other with her.'
Pronounced dead: A medical examiners truck leaves
the Greensville Correctional Center
after the execution of Teresa Lewis.
Death
penalty protesters outside Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt,
Virginia, where
Teresa Lewis
was executed and pronounced dead at 9:13pm on 23 September 2010.
(Photograph: AP Photo/Steve Helber.)
Execution scene: Greensville Correctional Center in
Jarratt in which Teresa Lewis died.
Death bed: The execution chamber at Greensville
Correctional Center in Jarratt
in which Teresa Lewis died.
(AP Photo/Virignia Department of Corrections, File)
The victims
Teresa Lewis paid for her husband Julian Lewis
(right) and his son Charles to be murder.
